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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

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The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

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It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

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You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

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The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

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