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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
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“There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.”
― Mary Poppins
― Mary Poppins
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
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“There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.”
― Rules for a Knight
― Rules for a Knight
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