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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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

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Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

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The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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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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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

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Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

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The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

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Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

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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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