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• "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."

• "You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

• "When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."

• "There's no one thing that is true. They're all true."

• "There is no friend as loyal as a book."

• "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

• "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."

• "Never mistake motion for action."

• "If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work"

• "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

• "Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

• "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

• "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

• "Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."

• "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

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