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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

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At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

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If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!

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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

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But all God's angels come to us disguised...

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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.

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As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.

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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

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There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

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