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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Goethe...
• Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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• Be and not seem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Every burned book enlightens the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensatio
• All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
  Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immenseley the value of your first....
• but the kind of man that the country turns out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• Life consists of what a man is thinking of all day. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso