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I'm so used to being tense that when I'm calm I get nervous.
Fear - Joy, interrupted now and again by pain and terminated ultimately by death, seems the normal course of life in Nature. Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Speak but the Truth, but speak it sweetly too; So it may gracefully pervade and soothe
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Communication - wo things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
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Creativity - Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
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Creativity - I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long established practice to control and bias
my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
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Expectations - When a man's desires are boundless, his labors are endless. They will set him a task he can never go through, and cut him out work he can never finish. The satisfaction he seeks is always absent, and the happiness he aims at is ever at a distance.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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