"But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong."
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"But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment."
"Control is the source of strategic power."
"The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source."
"Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI."
"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
"We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources."
"The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature."
"It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength."
"We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment."