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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one has to stay awake all day.
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We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
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