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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

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Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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