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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

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And that uncleanly image of deceit

Came up and thrust ashore its head and bust,

But on the border did not drag its tail.

The face was as the face of a just man,

Its semblance outwardly was so benign,

And of a serpent all the trunk beside.

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In those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up seeming.

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If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

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Information is not knowledge.

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

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All normal human beings are born with a powerful urge to learn. Almost all of them lose this urge, even before they have reached maturity. It is only the few… who are so constituted that lack of learning becomes a nuisance. This is perhaps the most insidious of human tragedies.

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Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

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If you are depressed you are living in the past.

If you are anxious you are living in the future.

If you are at peace you are living in the present.

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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

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And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

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Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.

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God’s will.

A vessel.

That’s what you thought I was. What we were, who we were, were we came from, what we wanted, none of that mattered to you.

We are people. We have lives.