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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Recognize Daily work Ledger Firework
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Exercise Privilege Vastly Important
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

Victorious Flinched Questioned Faitful
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Season State Mind Peace
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Once Something Everything Cannot
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I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Save People Economy Policy
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I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

Feel Guilty Sometimes Like
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Rest Error Truth Knowledge
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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 creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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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 me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Dream Part Nature Intention
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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Fool Condemn Criticize Complain
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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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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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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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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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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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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Fatigue Frustration Cause Work
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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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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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Everyone around me says, “You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.

Around Genius Great Voice
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You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Become Famous Unfamous Infamous
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Boring Going Here Know
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Agent Awe Behind Believe
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If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Focus Stress Success Pursue
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Harmony Opportunity Achieve Society
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I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?

Depression Inside Know Lot
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I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good.

Amount Appreciation Cool Deserve
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You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

Love Someone Song Write
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Control Attitude Toward Happens
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Actually Again Always Bored
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I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.

Care Every Good Much
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Calculate Motion Heavenly Bodies
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Man May Imagine False
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Speak Fool Wise Man
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I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

Honey Bees Mean Life
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“The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

Opportunity More Likely Achieve
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“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.”

Bigger Smaller Making Challenges
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“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

Talent Gift Choice Character
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“Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.”

Achievement Top Remaining Spectacular
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“If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

Peace Cannot Control Happens
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