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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

Again Even Happens Laugh
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Don't please others at the cost of displeasing yourself. Don't restore others at the cost of breaking yourself . Don't endorse others at the cost of destroying your own worth.

Yourself Please Cost Restore
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Act Against Before Every
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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
Attacked Coward Defended Faceless
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

I Don't Even Call
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The Negros Revolution Controlled
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You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

Focus Time Footballer Positives
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

You Can't Hate Root
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Coat He Himself Mail
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Coat Generally Hole Leaves
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Bought Gives Itself Love
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Clears Complaint Joy Love
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Fear Interest Men Moved
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Anything Believing Happen Magic
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Abandon Avoided Better Dangers
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Against Author Even Every
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Do-It-Yourself Done Thing Want
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Achieve Demanded Greater He
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character Develops Itself Life
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

Also Before Biggest Came
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Conquer Conquered Self Will
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Best Best Way First Others
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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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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Another Blind Needs Person
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Achievement Born Great Great Achievement
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Drawn Enough Eye Hold
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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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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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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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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

Intend Like Myself Necessarily
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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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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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare Myself Places Say
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All men are driven either by design or default. Instead of strolling along with the “default circumstances” you find yourself in, strive to align your life with the instruction manual of the designer of life; God Almighty.

God Life Design Strive
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority Poisons Takes
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

Nas
Challenging Creatively Me Myself
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Nas
Crazy Everybody Out Please
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I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Author I Think Lazy Myself
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism Luxury Jew Allow
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Admit Between Deny Difference
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Allowing Building Empathy Function
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Been Books Cause Had
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
Commit Mighty Purpose Yourself
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision

Support Take Decision
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe Faith Abilities Humble
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Battle Happiness Life Retreat
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