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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent, criticism.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated, or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
