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You must have a vision and not just a vision but you must have a plan that would make you fulfil that vision.

Vision Plan Make Must
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Advice Final Character Parent
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People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.

Mouth Shut Opinion Stop
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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Human Wealth Power Goodness
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There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Remember Laugh Forget Those
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Sympathy, love, fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Love Fortune These Tend
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People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I’m not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.

Winner Change Second People
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Sleeping is like meditation: it’s good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

Meditation Body Mind Down
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

Hard Being Famous Person
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The belt doesn’t represent me; it’s how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

Deal Champion Sign People
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

Crime Reward Low End
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I don’t have a preferred religion – I’d have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I’ve grown into my own man, I don’t attach myself to a religion – 100 percent, I have faith. Then it’s locking into what suits me.

Faith Attach Myself Suit
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Teach Suffer Enjoy Live
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Image Power Choice Build
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Very Beautiful Good Play
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Want One Want Get
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Treat Person Society Mean
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Good More Work Able
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts.

Start Important How Count
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History shows that the most famous winners usually had faced enormous difficulties. But they won because they refused to be defeated.

Show Most Won Had
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Human From Doing Thing
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

World Should Rich Get
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

Story Destination May Our
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

World Able Treat Another
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Race Believe Begin Fact
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What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.

Courage Raise Child Ability
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

Pursue Careful Person Fear
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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Long Better Found Many
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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.

Duty Value Fruit Never
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.

Life Not Only Should
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The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Art Much Virtue Very
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Search Bottom But Nothing
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What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Kind Care Break Nation
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There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Always Down Song Bad
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Look Rate Waste Year
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Fierce Darkness Black Light
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Life Married Single Wife
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Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Empty Sorrow Strenght Tomorrow
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Big Event Experiences Get
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Gone Intend End Need
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Diploma Scar Medal Degree
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship Love Risk Sharing
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Truth Sun Shut Away
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

House Art Nature Haunt
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,

Certain Person Speak Excuse
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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