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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Bother Contemporary Better
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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I decline to accept the end of man.

Decline Accept Man
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man Performs Engenders Bear
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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
Past Dead Fact
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Goal Desire Mind First
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why
Artist Creature Demons Wonder
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Accepted Come Dreams Great
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Seed Magic Adversity Benefit
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Prepare Failure Success Again
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Worse Gratitude Accept
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

Sound Worthiness Earth Human
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Hollywood Place Stabbed Climbing
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Board Honor Pride Decency
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

Gratitude Electricity Discharged
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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Its okay to take a LOSS in order to be the BOSS
Loss Boss Order
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It was beautiful and it was hell at the same time but it showed me all the lessons I needed to learn to face the world.

Beautiful Time Lessons Needed
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Because Deemed Good Helps
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Alone Attacks Because Body
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Alchemy Founder Process Smith
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Affected Done Good Known
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Added Clear ClearConscience Conscience
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Chief Consists Enjoyment Greater
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Any Become Country Demand
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Achievement Point Purpose Starting
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Defense Opulence Superior
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sunrise Death Even Great
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Been Defense Given Innocence
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Delight Enjoy Order
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Attended Consumer Consumption End
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith Is Living Daring
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith Must Trample Under
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Shall Never Heretic May
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I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Any Been Growing GrowingUp
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Hang Hear Her Maria
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

All Who Call God
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Days Each Forever Gone
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

For The Nature Things
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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