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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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When I was younger… I didn't want to be pigeonholed… Basically, now you want to be pigeonholed. It's your niche.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something...almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.
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To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
