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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "Try to be a little kinder".
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If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.
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When you have a special gift you don't realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. The other half of humanity has been accepting the material world and denying the inner world. Both are half, and no man who is half can be contented. You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. Only a whole person is a holy person, according to me.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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