"The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art."
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"One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!"
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"[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death."
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"If education is beaten by training, civilization dies."
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"Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep."
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"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."
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"Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers."
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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
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"The only training for the heroic is the mundane."
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"MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna."
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"Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding)."
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"I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience."
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"I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights."
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"I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved."
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"If you're in touch with your body, you certainly have an enormous sexual advantage. The mind-body connection is the same in sex as it is in training."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium."
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"I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling."
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"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why."
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"I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting."
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