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“There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it”

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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;…

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

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“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”

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Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

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It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a…

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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

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“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands…

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The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the…

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A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still…

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I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

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The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the…

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed…

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“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for…

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Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

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Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie all the…

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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed…

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