"The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness."
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"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
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"Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision."
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"Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it."
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"Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one."
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"To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring."
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"If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things."
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"We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded."
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"All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?"
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"Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought"
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"A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it."
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"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face."
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"To be truly wealthy, we must be able to give more than what we receive."
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"The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule."
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"I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection indicates pretty clearly that we don't think in language necessarily. We also think in visual images, we think in terms of situations and events, and so on, and many times we can't even express in words what the content of our thinking is. And even if we are able to express it in words, it is a common experience to say something and then to recognize that it is not what we meant, that it is something else."
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"You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man."
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"A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented."
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"If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell."
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"Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time."
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"I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage."
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