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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Abject Ambitious Believed Envious
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Sometimes I think people don't understand how easy and safe it is to never say anything controversial or speak out. How 'wise' it is to always keep your opinion or thoughts in your pocket. Nobody wants backlash. Nobody has time for insults.

Safe Speak out Never Controversial
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The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

Natural Sense Love Fair
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
Eternal Feel Know
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Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

Bread Dressed Hats Shoes
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Actions Alone Determined Exists
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Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self
Manners Reflect Sense Consideration
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Indignant Understand Wax Weep
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Born Conception Evil Form
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Absurd Contrary Nature Reason
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Basis Endeavor First Only
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Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.
Behavior Affect Etiquette
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I'm scared of falling. But I will fall a thousand miles for you

Falling Scared You Thousand mile
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The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

Fault Bad Dressing Standard
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Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Consideration Right Feelings Public
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You have 1440 minutes each day to choose who and what gets your attention.

Each day Attention Who
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Embrace the deal. And at the same time, keep track of your deal.

Embrace Deal Track Time
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Intellect Same SameThing Thing
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In any relationship do not try to change someone to be the best them for you. Be the best you for your relationship and find those that love you because of it.

Relationship Change Best Love
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Do not discount how others describe you. Assess the source, the comments, and the intent. It will either help you learn more about you, or learn a lot about those you give your time to.

Discount Source Comments Intent
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Absolutely Arts Freedom Liberal
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You either win or you learn. A loss only occurs if you are incapable of honestly reflecting on the experience and unable do the work to grow.

Win Loss Honestly Work
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Actions Hate Human HumanActions
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There will always be those who continuously test your resolve. Stay true to you. Love who you and believe in your values. That way, however they try to manipulate any situation, you will never sink to their level.

True to you Believe Values Never
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Activity Attain Because Being
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Actions Ceaseless Effort Human
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Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Burden False Make Horrible
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Others will dislike you. Others will disagree with you. Over time, if you are consistent in sticking to your values and beliefs, others will respect you.

Dislike Disagree Over time Beliefs
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Become Come Easily He
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We are so quick to find flaws with those who try. Succeed or fail, those who try will be far wiser, braver, stronger, and more ready to try again than the passive skeptic.

Flaws Succeed Fail Wiser
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There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Desert Man Needs
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Let them see you sweat, hurt, fall, fail, cry, bleed, crack, falter, suffer, struggle, persist, rise, fight, grow, improve, gain, triumph, and above all let them see your joy. But NEVER let them see you give up.

Sweat Fail Fall Struggle
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Conceived God Nothing Whatsoever
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature

AllThings Conditioned Contingent Divine
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Cannot Consequently Determined He
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

Kid Place Rock Roll
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It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Album Artwork Behind Collaborating
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Being BeingNice Changed Easier
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Am Band Ben Big
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Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Away Belong Couple Day
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.
Everybody Fighting Grow GrowUp
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Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

Dramatic Enough Everyone Feel
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point

Back Because Find Get
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I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Art Breath Come Equilibrium
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

Good Got Great JoniMitchell
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

Billy BillyJoel Both Great
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I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.
Aware Fringe Nice Very
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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