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" Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. "
Test
Road
Mountain
" Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. "
Stronger
Enemies
Allies
" He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. "
Who
Destroy
Control
" How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. "
Him
Anger
Angry
" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "
Wise
You
Government
" I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain. "
Path
Fear
Face
" It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. "
Poor
Know
Wise Man
" Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. "
Cruelty
Beginning
Kindness
" One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. "
Revolution
Understanding
Best
" Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. "
Future
Progress
Uncertain
" Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "
Truth
Morality
Close
" Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. "
Find
Seek
Liberty
" Something cannot emerge from nothing. "
Nothing
Something
Cannot
" The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. "
Knowledge
Beginning
Discovery
" The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. "
Sentimental
Way
Same
" The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. "
Who
Improve
Action
" The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. "
Proximity
Danger
Lies
" There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. "
Ancestors
Escape
Violence
" The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. "
Will
Control
Conflict
" Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? "
See
World
You
" To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. "
Seeing
See
Light
" To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. "
Know
End
You
" Truth suffers from too much analysis. "
Analysis
Much
Truth
" Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. "
Wealth
Freedom
Tool
" What do you despise? By this are you truly known. "
Truly
Known
Despise
" When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. "
Duty
Yourself
You
" Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. "
Change
Without
Inside
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