The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.