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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Answer Baby Born Complete
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Creature Fact Human Mystery
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Appetites Conquered Human Nature
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Contrast Dark Shadows Earth
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Answered Home Magician Name
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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Any Changes Consistent Got
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Begin Consistent Control Daily
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Control Controls Having How
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Behaviors Bodies Change Changing
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Always Chance Condition Conscience
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Begins Cast Conduct Eye
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Consequence Consolidation Corruption Country
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Certain Circumstances Confronting Does
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Convert Go Guide Hand
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Common Consider Hesitation His
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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Acts Appropriate Because Conditions
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Better Contemplate Deliver Illuminate
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It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

Common Entrepreneur Every Metric
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Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Am Assume Because Brought
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Adequately Attitudes Become Convey
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I believe firmly in God's control in life.

Believe Control Firmly God
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Been Business Career Conventional
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I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Delights Interest Love Returning
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Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

About Children Consider Fame
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Activity Basically Behalf Consumers
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Achieved Conviction Done Dream
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When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Conversion Deserve Done Gratitude
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Boy Dad Father He
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Advances Around Ask Been
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If he tells you (lady) that he is a contractor, ask him to show you evidence of all the contracts he has done. Because the contract he is talking about may be you. He wants to eat you off! Don't be a fool!

Show Contract Fool Eat
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

About Conversation Democracy Going
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Ages Between Continue Fascinating
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I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

Buildings Considered Constructed Craftsman
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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Against Confident Defensive Feel
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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Control Discipline Influence Lives
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Allowed Connecting Everyone Instead
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Conflict Glorious Harder More
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Concentration First Honesty Industry
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Acquired Affairs Born Control
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Argue Compromise Compromised Greater
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Basket Capital Concentrate Eggs
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Approval Best Consciousness Doing
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Believe Consist Doing Duties
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