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Then why do they hate me? No, they don't. They are just confused. Something different always confuses others. It makes them feel uncomfortable. ↗
As a gift to His people, the King painted their seven colors in the shape of a bridge in the sky, as a symbol for the real bridge that the people had just crossed. ↗
You must live long enough to remember your mistake. That is your punishment. That is your destiny. ↗
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. ↗
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools. ↗
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. ↗
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die. ↗
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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ↗
