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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

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