"The solution to your problem is to see who has it."
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"Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease."
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"There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink."
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"The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free."
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"It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development."
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"We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom."
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"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!"
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"To ask the proper question is half of knowing."
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"No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you."
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"Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man."
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"This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"
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"The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality."
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"The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage."
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"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."
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"The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow."
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"But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat."
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"The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge."
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"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
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"... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the two is not intuitive. There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument. What that medium is, I must confess, passes my comprehension; and it is incumbent on those to produce it, who assert that it really exists, and is the origin of all our conclusions concerning matter of fact."
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"To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it."
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