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"But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."
"Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it."
"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see."
"Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea."
"The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do."
"I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money."
"What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure."
"You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement."
"Man makes religion, religion does not make man"
"Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?"
"Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless."
"Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought."
""I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others.""
"Ah, on what little things does happiness depend."
"Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, Maybe it works, but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more."
"Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing."
"If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace."
"If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner"
"Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire."
"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation."
