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 A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.  I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. Think of the ills from which you are exempt. I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine. It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Perhaps I am stronger than I think. A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting. He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant. - Socrates There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. Luck is good planning, carefully executed. A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him. It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one. If thine enemy- be hungry, give him bread to eat. - Proverbs Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. - Bible 
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