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Civilization is a stream with banks.

The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,

stealing, shouting, while on the banks,

unnoticed, people build homes, raise children,

sing songs, write poetry, and generally live.

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.

The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement

for its sustenance or promotion.

I’d rather be hated for

who I am than loved for

who I am not.

If four things are followed

having a great aim

acquiring knowledge

hard work

and perseverance

then anything can be achieved.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament,

not intellect.

Success is walking

from failure to failure

with no loss of

enthusiasm.

You can fool all the people some of the time,

and some of the people all the time,

but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

No one has ever measured,

even poets,

how much a heart can hold.

Talent is nothing without courage.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

You can either see yourself as a wave,

in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

Be authentic;

everything else is secondary.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

I tell you,

we are here on Earth to fart around,

and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Try to be a rainbow

In someone's cloud.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.