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I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.
 
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
 
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
 
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
 
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
 
The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.
 
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.
 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
 
I used to want to be an old man when I was a kid. Now I'm an old man and my kids are growing, I think I want to be a kid.
 
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
 
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
 
the question is not how to get rid of fear, but how to awaken the intelligence with which to face and to understand and go beyond fear.
 
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
 
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
 
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
 
Thinking is difficult, so most of us judge.
 
Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
 
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
 
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
 
Our identity is not a stable essence, but an ongoing project of presentation and performance.
 
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