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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Judge Reach False Aspiration
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Power Spiritual Need Seen
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Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Keep Sit Life Disappear
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Criticize Obvious Problem Care
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There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Form Strategy Confidence Succeed
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Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

Reward Worth Walk Exactly
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Growth Effort Work Depend
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Class Right People Ultimate
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Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.

Down Divine Assert Denial
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I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I'm Emotional Gangster Cry
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I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

Scared Follow Dream Because
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Leadership Danger Celebrate Victory
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Language Head Heart Understand
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Sky Dream Work Conspires
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Debt Play Owe Imagination
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Rest Error Truth Knowledge
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Look Depend Thing How
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Hang Talent Dangerous Great
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude
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The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

Human Subject Declare Rational
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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Right Problem Solution Ask
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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Logic Pride Vanity People
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Important World Kept Hope
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Power Hate Over Sleep
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Fact Individual Mind Avoid
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Power Rest Turn Moral
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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

Listen Talk Someone Hours
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If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.

Process Person Engage Become
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Fear Mind Remember Except
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Special Ability Heavy Energy
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Change Begin Single Individual
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Greatest Important Problem Outgrown
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When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

Infinite Dream Conceive Procedure
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All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Fear Victory Death Forward
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We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Rose Magical Blooming Garden
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember

Allow Upset Small Life. Should
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Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.

Always Say Known Listen
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Rest Eternally Course Absurd
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

Worse Call Crazy Dismissive
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching

True Hard Thing Yourself
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Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like

Racism Bigots Feel Hate
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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Stage Happy Time Adult
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there on stage when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

People Wall Stand Stage
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Cool Long Around Love
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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Comedy Teacher Salary Doing
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