to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the present.
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the read more
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
