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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

Aldous Huxley

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Among Church Consider Equivalent Father Going Mountain Walk
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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All Good Give Homemade Our Power Pull String Them
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Complete Consistency Contrary Dead Life Nature People
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Ability Activity All Combine Efficiency Incompatible Life Secret Seemingly State
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Change Found One Oneself Sure Thing Want World
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Being Come Know Love Mind Shall Stillness Wisdom
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Great Human Justifier Least Malice Miseries Motivation Stupidity Third Two
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Ever Happen Insignificant Mean Other So Something
It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

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