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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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So far as a person thinks; they are free.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
Cosmos (1980) -
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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