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Quotes by Writer
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
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"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
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"What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?"
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"Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before."
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"Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues."
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"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."
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"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
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"The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves."
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"You have to read between the lines, I saw it all in her eyes before her actions came to life, and it's what wisdom is all about."
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"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."
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"Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked."
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"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
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"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
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"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?"
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"Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?"
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"When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again."
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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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"Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the nature of something or someone, does not mean that you will come to terms."
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"As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week."
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"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."
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"Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by architecture and engineering, of being dumbstruck by the Bombardier trains that progress driverlessly between satellites or by the General Electric GE90 engines that hang lightly off the composite wings of a Boeing 777 bound for Seoul. And yet to refuse to be awed at all might in the end be merely another kind of foolishness."
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"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."
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"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
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"We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government."
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"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."
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"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
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"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
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"It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."
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"If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."
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"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."
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"Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?"
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"Everything you go through grows you."
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