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“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”
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“Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion.”
― Player Piano
― Player Piano
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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