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“Talking's just a nervous habit.”
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“A poet perceives and gives whole-hearted expression to that which our sensibilities, not less lively but less musicianly, keep stored inside.”
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“... most of the worthwhile, the beautiful, the progressive and the useful achievements of homo sapiens had been produced by introverted neurotics ...”
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“Presently there was taking place in his mind that undirected, haphazard activity which he was accustomed to describe to himself inaccurately as 'thought.'”
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“One hour of right-down love / Is worth an age of dully living on.”
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“I always say: 'Put one little word into your life and before every bit of work you have to do.' And that word is 'For!' For someone or something, you could do anything. Martyrs and learned men have shown it. 'For" is the whole secret of life. 'For' is the mainspring of life.”
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“Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
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“America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help — because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.”