"Holding back is so close to stealing."
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"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
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"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it."
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
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"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
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"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."
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"Beauty would save the world."
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"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
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"When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all."
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"You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance."
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"When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
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"The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm."
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"The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else."
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"Life is in ourselves and not in the external."
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"If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground."
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"In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep."
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"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!"
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