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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
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Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier - certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 263
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