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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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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

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