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 Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal. - Goethe  You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money. We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man. Happy is he that chastens himself. It is not customary to love what one has. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down. Change means the unknown. I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. - Socrates The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna. When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me." My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce, who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris. Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. 
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