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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
Every tradition grows ever more venerable: the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
The natural attitude of the mind is not concerned with the critique of knowledge. In such an attitude, our attention is tumed - in acts of intuition and thought - to things given to us, and given as a matter of course, even though they are given in different ways and in different modes of being according to the source and level of our knowledge of them.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.