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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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