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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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A world is supported by four things. …” She held up four big-knuckled fingers. “… the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing. …” She closed her fingers into a fist. “… without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”
ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
“What is money,” Kynes asked, “if it won’t buy the services you need?”
“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.”
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake.
The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions … ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.”
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
“If you want profits, you must rule.”
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it,”
