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The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

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A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

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It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

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How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

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The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

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