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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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