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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

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Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

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If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

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Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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