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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be. Measuring myself by that standard I must exclaim with Surdas: ' Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been. ' For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Seeing your name in front page headlines as if you were some kind of a major accident or gun battle is always startling. No matter how often you see it you don't get used to it. You keep thinking: That's about me. The whole country's reading about me. Maybe the world is.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause.
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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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