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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

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Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

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Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

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Genius is talent provided with ideals.

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

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