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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Mistakes Learn Important Success
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I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.
Am Certain Does God
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I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

Because Challenges Disabled Lack
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Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

Back Best Branch Gives
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership Potent Strategy Character
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Unfortunately Regretted Fact Temper
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

Environmentalist Believe Mankind Nature
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Crossed Free Freedom Had
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The Human spirit and faith is not usually being challenged by the predictable and the routine but by the overwhelming and the uncertain.

Human spirit Faith Uncertain Routine
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

About Anything Change Control
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language Principles Generation Interpretation
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Justification Cultural Deficit Survival
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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Degree Office Pressure Public
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

Towers Normal Part Camp
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But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Being Camp First Out
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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Keep Order Failed Ideals
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I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Extent About Convention Very
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I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

Planet Over Reality Latin
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I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

Country Better Society Passion
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In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

Come Course Decision Life
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They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!

Audience Best Better Critics
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People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.

Life Full People Turns
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Accomplished Began Beginning Each
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Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Taste Swallow Fits
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Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

Threaten Promise Convenient Pay
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Books Right Brain Dead
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Word Procrastination Language
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
Ask Man Knows
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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

After Done Effort Everything
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Good Money Check
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Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.

Salesman Selling Satisfy
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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested. You Never Money

Consider Hard Word
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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Men Dead Hang Right
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Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Appearance Deceitful Deceive
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But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.
People Think Young
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Test Courage Die Live
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Advice Dr Father Go
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

Cadillac Deserves Every Everyone
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

American Businesses Car Credit
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

Am Believe Book Certain
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Yield Misfortunes Boldly Permit
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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Easy Hell Gate Death
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When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

State Freedom
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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Millions Politics Masses Thousands
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses

Press Collective Agitator Propagandist
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We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
God Habit Name Only
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But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Bangs Great Life Life Is A
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I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

About Catching Feeling Happen
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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Actor Because Comedy Doing
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

Actress Any AnyOtherWay Hated
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