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If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
 
The process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.
 
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
 
There is nothing so pathetic as a bore who claims attention - and gets it
 
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
 
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
 
POLITICS: War Without Bloodshed.
 
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
 
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
 
We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.
 
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
 
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
 
For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance
 
Without darkness there are no dreams. 
 
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
 
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
 
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
 
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
 
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
 
Friendship is a pact, a convention. Two beings tacitly promise never to broadcast what each really thinks of the other. A kind of alliance based on compromises. When one of them publicly calls attention to the other's defects, the pact is declared null and void, the alliance broken. No friendship lasts if one of the partners ceases to play the game. In other words, no friendship tolerates an exaggerated proportion of honesty.
 
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