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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."
"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him."
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