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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Obey Being Bound Them
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Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Your Cup Empty Devoid
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The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Failure Unhappiness Trading Want
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A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.

People Thought Because Someone
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Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Failure Teacher Make Undertaker
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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Love Duty Beautifully Make
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Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Motivation Habit There Going
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Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
See Further Can You
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“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

History World Nations Strong
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“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”

Shape Dwelling Afterwards Our
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

Rule Criticize Abroad Attack
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Realize Catastrophy Between Know
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If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Want Swim Jump Water
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Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Right Wrong Better Against
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Spend Manner Waste Forever
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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Less Effort More Fast
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The doubters said, ‘Man can not fly,’ The doers said, ‘Maybe, but we’ll try,’ And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Doubt Fly Final Glow
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Compare Cease Peace Live
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Life Battle Strong Fast
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Take Punch Kick Have
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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.

Dedicate Concept Between Image
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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Use Work Take Place
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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Relax State Level Student
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When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Reach Form Water Style
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
What Determine Become Think
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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Fear Better Great Know
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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Set Form Adapt Grow
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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Tense Ready Dream Aware
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

War Blunder Main Catalogue
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality

State Mind Defeat Reality
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Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Endure Cease Work Lost
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to s

Harmony Strength Force Natural
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
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America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

Always Define Stand More
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Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

Journey World Bucket Stomach
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

First Human Quality Other
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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism Avoid Easy Say
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence Art Train Virtue
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Mirror Through Accessible Improve
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Victory Terror Hard Survival
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival
Heart Suffer Inspiration Survive
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“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

Build Destroy Task Years
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
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“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

Finance Agree Sound Everything
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This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Lesson Great Yield Enemy
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