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I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Insight Capacity Good Evil
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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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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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.

Have Perhaps You What
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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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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Decide Right Open Heart
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Change Attitude Like Your
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Heart Care Somebody Succeed
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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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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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Develop Courage Stand Enough
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Encounter Defeat Must Many
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Desire Reach Heart Wise
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Worth Raise Voice Rude
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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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To develop courage you have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up.

Develop Courage Start Muscle
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Weda yansh face east or west, na still back e go dey.

Weda Yansh East West
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We need to not be in denial about what we’ve done, what we’ve come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Help Done Through Denial
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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Na for daytime dem dey find black goat.

Daytime Goat Black Na
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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Grace Lake Water Door
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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Flesh Blood Hunger Set
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Heart Hidden Seek God
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A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum-crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigeria’s “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy”…. Certainly not democracy!

Celebration Democracy Deprecable Apotheosis
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother Always Intolerant Ignorance
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You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.

Listen Interest Sense Confidence
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Open Eye Beauty Around
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don’t mean sentimentality, I don’t mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different.

Believe Scent Love Different
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Order Always Which May
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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Urge Creative Destroy Also
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Camp Artist World Art
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Earth Spider Scrap Paper
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Chaste Ignorant Dangerous Forbidden
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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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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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Quality Disposal Sand Start
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
Matter Confident Look Sexy
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There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.

World Decade Iconic Icon
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

Voice Knew Always Front
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