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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Arriving Fixed Good Intent
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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Another Better Does Duty
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All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

About Children Concerned Kids
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Avoid Cannot Cast Covet
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
Ever Football Football Player Only
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Difficult Difficult Things Easy Great
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Does Gives He His
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I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Any Draw Gotta Guys
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

About Affairs Beginning Careful
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I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Being Ever Fast Going
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Mastering Others Power Strength
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Cook Fish Govern Great
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

About App Appliances Bulb
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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Because Creates Depressed Every
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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Asked Business Common Equally
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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Complete Could More Much
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

About Because Believe Better
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Common Counting Easy Folks
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I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

About Exchanges Know Meaningful
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Ability Blaming Down Easiest
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Between Come Empty End
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Amazon Big Customer First
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Advertiser Any Mission Skeptical
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Aging Base Become Constantly
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When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

Building Dynamic Entrepreneurial Explosion
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You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

Anonymous Arrange Benefit Combined
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

Cannot Company Dorm Giant
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

About Ask Change Forget
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

Always Because Just Lose
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Course Effected Enemy Harm
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Charity Christmas Fire Flame
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

After Beauty Been Charms
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Bad Bruised Certain Change
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Doubted Eloquence Enthusiasm Indeed
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Like Nine Since Single-Minded
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Goes Great Known Sam
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Actor Been Boy Career
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

About Actor Any Be Careful
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

Anything Film First Go
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

Actor Better Bridges Even
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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

Also Always Anything Change
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I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

About Comedians Cross I Think
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

Basically Been Done Films
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I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

Anything Deep Deep Love Destroy
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I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

Agent Around Bushes Business
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Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.

Back Been Big Career
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It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

Came Get Going Like
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