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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

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Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

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