

“There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: "I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People

“The shadow has become the substance.”
― The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
― The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“Throw away thy books. No longer distract thyself.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.”
― The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
― The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
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