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" At times I think and at times I am. "
Paul Valery
I Am
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" Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. "
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" In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. "
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" Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. "
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" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "
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" The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. "
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" There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. "
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" We are what we believe we are. "
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" Power without abuse loses its charm. "
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" What worries you, masters you. "
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" A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. "
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" Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. "
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" There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. "
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" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "
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" The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. "
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" Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. "
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" We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. "
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" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "
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" A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. "
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" There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. "
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" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "
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" The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London. "
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" To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. "
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