"I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working."
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"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
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"Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!"
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"Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent."
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"I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me"
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"Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall."
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"Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance."
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"We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power."
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"When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage."
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"Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary."
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"When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense."
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"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."
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"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
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"The real universe is always one step beyond logic."
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"The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you."
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"You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die."
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"Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer."
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"The past is no farther away than your pillow."
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"There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other."
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"We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain."
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