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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises.
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: "Back Esperanto loyally."
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Don't get it right, just get it written.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
In explaining things to people, I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of my goals are very Christian in the end. Because people no longer appreciate the taboos of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I have to take them as far as they've ever been taken before, on a grand scale, in order for the world to realize we have to start over. It's very much like the mythology of the bible, the end of the world, and the antichrist and people are made to make a choice about their faith. I think certain elements of that are correct.
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn't so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.