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“Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

Reward Complexity Autonomy Connection
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“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”

Work-hard Assert Mind Imagination
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“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

Good-decision Knowledge Understanding Swimming
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. “Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

Truly-successful Decision-making Balance Deliberate
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Achievement is talent plus preparation.
Achievement Talent Plus Preparation
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Who Rise Year Fails
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Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Extraordinary Achievement Less Talent
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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Someone Best Friend Minimum
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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning”
Hard-work Prison Sentence Meaning
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions … by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

First Impressions Generated Experiences
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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

Success Random-act Predictable Powerful
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Success Function Doggedness Willingness
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Value World Inhabit People
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We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

Spend Time Thinking Prestige
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The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.
World Have Much Richer
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence

Poorer Children Mind Better
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Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Have Two-roads Chosen Third
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I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

Here There Two Names
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If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.
Olive Hands Planted Oil
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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Days Taught Happiness Deceives
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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

My-love Fear Silence Hands
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We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Captive Grows Fences Swallows
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The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.
Stars Task Taught Read
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Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless

Dreams Have Wind Night
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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

Where Free Homeland Body
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And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal. Enter into the happiness, and burst.

Happiness Surprise Mention Betrayal
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland

Learnt Worthy Blood Break
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She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Love You Metaphors Poet
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I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

Language Transforms Steel Spirit
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We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

Suffer Incurable Malady Hope
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

Poem Hands Run Stories
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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

Life Defined Opposite Death
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

One-day Poet Depend Water
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

Love Women Desires Horses
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And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.

Coffee Deliciousness Bitterness Addiction
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For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

Essential Poet Have Toast
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We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Journey Home Halo Head
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We Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployed Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope

Ascendants God Prisoners Unemployed
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Learned Dismantled Words Draw
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I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.

Opens Door Tree Dreams
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Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Time Poem Kill Slowly
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

May Poetry God Name
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In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south

World Abyss Heaven Earth
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A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Poet Need Trouble Leis
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I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.
Leave Life Stay Remainder
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No one has arrived. Leave me there as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness.

Arrived Leave Person Cries
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This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust

Peace Leave Cluster Dust
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Words are a homeland.

Words Homeland
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Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice.

Death Metaphor Remind Secret
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