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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Fate Men Minds Only
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Colleagues Fellow I Can Pick
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Arduous Attempt Difficult
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Any Attribute Excuse Gave
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Because Day Early Enough
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Discipline Far Gift God
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

After Cold Disease Faint
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Exceptions Knows Man Old
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chamber Common First-Rate Furniture
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Fits Handle Lie Many
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Admire Always Love Those
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice Cannot Give Profit
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As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Condemned Erase Government History
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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Healing Matter Opportunity Sometimes
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Calling God Good Hand
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Breeds Father Ignorance Knowledge
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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Alcohol Bible Enemy Love
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Aloof Best Curb Gentle
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Ask Brave Cause Country
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I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Admire Flunked Fond Like
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Beauty Rare Wisdom Youth
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Earthquake Fire Gentle Light
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Certainly Get Might Must
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Answer Legs Prayed Received
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Any Calamity Dangerous Dangerous Thing
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Appreciate Appreciated Battle Easily
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The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

Access America Business Creation
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They hate you but they don’t know you. How cute.

Hate Know You Cute
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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Because Building Company Energy
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Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

Decide Hard Hits Life
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I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

About Curious Game Knowing
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I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic - but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.

Because Blind Body Challenged
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Jail Revolution Revolutionary You
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Death Fear Itself Meaning
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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Collectively Establishment Every Fear
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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Great Hate Love Motivates
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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

Believe Black Inflicted Never
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I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

Along Children Get Getting
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It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Good Listen Never Other
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I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Arrive Been Children Disappears
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We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Democracy But Perfect Have
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The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Democracy Dictatorship Exists Here
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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Annoy Cannot Often Pardon
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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Again Ambition From Back
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Alone Both Cannot Concur
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Always Concern Friends Good
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Actions Best Blush Did
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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Fortunes Judging Know Men
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