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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Achievement Acorn Angel Bird
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Affairs Effort Efforts Human
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Anything Courage Greatest Honor
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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Beautiful Gentle Nothing Presence
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The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Act Character Destiny Habit
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Being Choice Every He
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstances Him Make Man
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Capable Gravitate Heart His
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Adjustment Being Conditioned Happiness
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Expression Harmony Law Love
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Director Discovers He His
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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Accomplish Achieve Attain Greatly
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If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Before Desire Good Just
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Anxious Bound Circumstances Improve
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A man is literally what he thinks.
He Literally Man Thinks
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Accomplish Direct Fail Life
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Alter Find He Him
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Beautiful Becomes Calmness Good
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
Achieve Aspire Desire Obtain
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Ask Four Me Now
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Happiness Harmony Mental Unhappiness
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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Conquered Doubt Failure Fear
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The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

Deserve Fact Lot Shows
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Find He Intense Man
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When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Allowed Channels Easy Energy
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Cannot Coerce Command Guidance
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

Beautiful Dark Developed Flowers
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Brought Cannot Endure Errors
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Ask Bless Bring Deeds
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Confused Emotions Intellect Lie
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Action Desires Feed Go
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All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

Become Critics Discussions Get
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Argue Both Celebrate Differ
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Fact Going Most People
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

America Class Film Invisible
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

American Begin Class Feel
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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President

Bush Elected President Think
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

More Most People Prejudice
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

Beyond Categorize Get Idea
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I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Boost Criticism Enormous Film
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Fine Glad Kind Me
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Been Comedy Drop Gate
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Better Get Hearing Hollywood
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Absorb Attention More Movies
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

About Academy Image Paranoid
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Ambition Drowned Get Just
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
Filmmaking Lot Conscious
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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