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	"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
	"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
	An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
	After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
	Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
	That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
	To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
	Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
	From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
	I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
	The only completely consistent people are the dead.
	There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
	Maybe this world is another planet's hell

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