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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
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'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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