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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
[ Experience ]
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
[ Common Sense ]
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
[ Quotations ]
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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
[ Action ]
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
[ Life and Living ]
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
[ Action ]
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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Seek simplicity but distrust it.
[ Simplicity ]
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
[ Common Sense ]
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
[ Speech ]
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
[ Progress ]
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
[ Youth ]
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
[ Courage ]
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
[ Adventure ]
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