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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. Richard Bach

You Eyes Fly Understanding Believe Way Out Telling Find See Know Look Limitation Your Show

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Politics War Own Monstrous About Fact Individual Individual Human Most Instruments Quarrels Condemned Shocking Human Human Beings Conventions Victims Beings

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens

Good People Bad People Bad Would Would-Be Lawyers Were

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway

Great New Beginning Book Sometimes Try Will Beginning Luck Others Tried Tries Something Writer Attainment Never He True Failed New Beyond Always Been Done Where Again Succeed Then Should Each

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. Ernest Hemingway

You Heroes Older Sort Get Harder Necessary

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. James Baldwin

You World Before Take Leave Came Need

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. James Joyce

Human Being Church Philosophy Abhorrent Human Being Which Heresy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy

Truth Like Obtained Gold Washing Away Growth

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Louisa May Alcott

Good Few Good Friends Books More Select Like Friends Chosen Enjoyable

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes

Life Madness Too Much Too See May Much Should Sanity

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley

Truth Great Silence Eloquent Totalitarian About More Point Could Point Of View Simply Most Practical Greater Opinion Still Subjects Effectively Than Influenced Much Certain View

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Aldous Huxley

Life Problem Try Advice Way Bit Embarrassing Kinder Find More Concerned Been End Offer Than Human Little

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide

Art God Better Collaboration Between Does Artist Less

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. Charles Morgan

God Man Magical Finger More Surprise Than Being Loved Shoulder

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness Achievement Lie Does

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. George MacDonald

Politics Best Nature Men Govern Want Elected Should

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. Gore Vidal

Government Class People Genius Nothing Our Ruling Ruling Class System Along Most Majority Return Inequity Questioning Get Where Heavy Which Taxes Paying Ever Kept

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life Wonderful Wish Only Had Sooner Wonderful Life Realized

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