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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Life Your State Constant
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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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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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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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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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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction

Knowledge Skill Float Empty
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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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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Those Seek Light Walk
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”

Love Great Freedom Justice
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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What is” is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.

More Should People Think
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

False Word Evil Infect
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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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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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

Victory Problem Defeat Less
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“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

Maker Prepared Ordeal Meet
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“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Terrible World True Lies
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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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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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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

War Peace Good Win
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Healthy Citizen Assets Country
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“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”

Simple Freedom Honour Mercy
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

Begin Eagle Silent Parrot
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”

Broad Short Word Best
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

Empire Future Mind The
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Master Difficulty Opportunity Won
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Endure Comfort Ease Time
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Slaves Words Slip Masters
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Stripped Curse Plenty Bare
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Light Felt
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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Fear Others
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Heavy Broken
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The Greatest Enemies of Equity Investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Enemy Equity Investor Great
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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes”

Stock Willing Owning Years
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