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Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Happy Good May Make
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

Lens Nature Soul Angel
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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Learn Better Worth Wealth
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

Human Child Whose Love
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On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Globe Between Gross Force
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Like Wake Brain Cell
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You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
You That Pleasant Are
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Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Day Shall Behave Today
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Fantasy Way Living Life
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Today Good Fun One
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He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Beast Pain Being Rid
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They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Fast Past Progress Live
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I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.

Born Make Fake Mistake
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People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them not to like me. But the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Build Life Story People
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It’s funny when you coming in first but you hope that you’re last, you just hope that it lasts.

Funny First Hope Last
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Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long.

Long Held Give Think
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Haters will broadcast your failures, but whisper your success.

Success Whisper Faliure Hater
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Everybody has an addiction, mine happens to be success.

Mine Everybody Success Has
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Teach Same Work Thing
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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Soul Next World Culture
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Free Either Least Know
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

Sense Common Remember Eye
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Feel Own Grow Owe
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Money Company Standard Value
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Presume City State Eloquent
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dirt Nourish Grow Stunt
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive Child Afraid Dark
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Those Able See Beyond
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Mission Survive Thrive Passion
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

Suffer Know Terribly Cause
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Lucky Solitary Fantasy Transform
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Develop Courage Pick Weight
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When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power.

Worth Power Room Walk
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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Worth Raise Voice Rude
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

World Love Young Grab
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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To develop courage you have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up.

Develop Courage Start Muscle
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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