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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Does Endeavor He Like
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Away Cut Forth God
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

About Cannot Fence Forever
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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Time Manner Ostentatious Your
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Decide Given Time Us
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Box Golden Hid Hinges
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Above Cheer Food Gold
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Battle Except Get His
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Achieve Appear Desires Enough
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Deadline A Dream Goal
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Deserve Half Know Less
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Burning Burning Desire Desire Knowledge
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Cannot Deal Death Deserve
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Achievements Beginning Earned Idea
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Conceive Eyes Ideas Just
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Beginning Fortunes Ideas Points
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Any Before Defeat Easiest
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Any Burning Burning Desire Cut
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Any Idea May Mind
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Achievement Desire Everything Hope
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Delightful Most Must Senses
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Dead Generate He Hostility
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Purpose
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Adversity Being Challenging Courage
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Beings Body Everyday Experience
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Confidence is a strength. Overconfidence is a weakness. Ambition is a strength. Over ambition is a weakness. Balance the scale, so you are always in the middle.

Confidence Overconfidence Weakness Strength
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Am Chapters Costs Could
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Child Feel Home House
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Short cuts make long delays.
Cuts Delays Long Make
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Anything Funny Nobody Practically
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

Again Book Frozen Moment
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Always Beginning Book Chapter
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Background Behind Hideous Know
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Abyss Black Delving Fascination
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Best Creation Deepest Emotion
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