"The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such."
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"Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change."
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"That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think ."
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"While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person."
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"When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'."
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"Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]"
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"A good calculator does not need artificial aids."
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"The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long."
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"That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge."
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"The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist."
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"That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices."
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"The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction."
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"It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'"
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"Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales."
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"I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants."
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"It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean."
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"That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors."
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"...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect."
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"In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity."
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"The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself."
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