"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."
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"God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces."
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"On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?"
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"If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists."
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"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."
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"Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life."
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"A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations."
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"And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad."
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"The conclusion does not belong to the artist."
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"Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity."
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"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
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"It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit."
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"And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning."
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"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."
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"A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing."
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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
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"A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40."
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"Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake."
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"Ordinary life does not interest me."
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"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous."
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