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“You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.”
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“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”
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“... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.”
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“... an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.”
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“The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.”
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“Procrastination means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You are thinking.”
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“A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ... ”
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“... human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.”