It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there yo

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

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    The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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    Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

    Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

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