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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best

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Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

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The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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