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I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee

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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. – Aristotle

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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion… .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. – Richard Bach

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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. – Kehlog Albran

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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page. – Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

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War is Gods way of teaching Americans geography. – Ambrose Bierce

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Intuition is instinct humanized. – F.B. Dowd, The Temple of the Rosy Cross: The Soul: Its Powers, Migrations and Tr

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