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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

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Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

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The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

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A big iron needle stitching the country together.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 18th, 1902

Died: February 23rd, 1984

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