"A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating."
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"Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe."
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"You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will."
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"If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today."
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"I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability."
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"Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous."
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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
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"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
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"A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful."
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"Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available."
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"Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die."
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"There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same."
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"Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!""
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"Madness in method, that's genius"
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"Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary."
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"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos."
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"Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short."
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"Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it."
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"I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."
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"To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned"
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