Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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