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" Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. "

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" The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. "

" In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. "

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" The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. "

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" The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. "

" Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. "

" Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. "

" And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? "

" No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. "

" It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. "

" Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. "

" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "

" Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. "

" It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. "

" Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. "

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" We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. "

" Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. "

" We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. "

" The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. "

" When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. "

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" Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. "

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" The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. "