"A house that has a library in it has a soul."
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"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
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"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."
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"Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot."
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"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
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"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
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"I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right."
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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
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"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."
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"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
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"Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves."
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"As was his language so was his life."
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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
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"Words are loaded pistols."
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"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."
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"Information is not knowledge."
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"If you don't like someone's story, write your own."
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"No man however great is greater than his people"
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"Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation."
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