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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Conviction Even Great Kindness
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Consumed Death Desire Great
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Happy Good May Make
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Help Learn Alone Room
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Price Good Evil Rule
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“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”; in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Those Able See Beyond
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Develop Courage Pick Weight
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

World Love Young Grab
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I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Change Happen Refuse Reduce
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Intention Count Reason Prove
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

Home Animal Sleep Baby
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Heart Hope Dream Hate
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Hate Soul Degrade Permit
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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 fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Century End Achieve Substantial
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Chosen First Flight Circumstances
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Evil Attention Action Alone
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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Majority Good Right Truth
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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Wisdom Awaken Security Scripture
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Expect Pull Weak Strong
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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Judge Reach False Aspiration
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Easy Country Understand Mean
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Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

Reward Worth Walk Exactly
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Trust Abide Result Chance
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Atheism Look System Solar
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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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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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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Important World Kept Hope
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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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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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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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You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

Angry Person Measure Size
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Month More Year Friend
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember

Allow Upset Small Life. Should
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Along Always Been Chords
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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Different Direction Ever Found
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.

Forever Suffocate Breath Holding
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Process Ignore
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Melody Nerves Triggers Body
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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Chaos Society Genius Breeds
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Women Progress Community Progress
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