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If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

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Leonardo da Vinci

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

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He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

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An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

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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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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

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God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

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If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

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Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.

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