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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Ourselves Outward Peace Seek
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Be True Consistent Contradict Honestly
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Copy Improve Model Other
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Along Every Five Hundred
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Beings Leads Our Poetry
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We have to enjoy ourselves and go for every trophy we can.

Enjoy Every Go Ourselves
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We must be a part of the change we seek, or risk being changed ourselves.
Part Seek Risk Change
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

Course Driven Game Get
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Beyond Defeat Defeating Enemy
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Against Defeat Defeating Enemy
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Religion Dead It May
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Answer Authority Bound Consider
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Always Been Come Compel
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Accept Beings Clear Different
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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

Align Aware Become Changed
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

American Attack Cannot Chinese
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

Attract Caretakers Caring Community
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

About Change Each Energy
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Anything Cannot Discover Help
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Abstraction Across Barely Earth
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People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Charity Conservatives Donate Higher
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It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

System Taking Themselves Understand
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

Person Potential Recognize Themselves
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Against Competing Divorced Facts
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Among Disagree Only Quarrel
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Alone Also Begin Convinced
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art Enables Find Lose
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Capacities Choices Deepest Enable
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Because God Others Ourselves
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Care Effects Good Leaves
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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Communicate Determines Lives Others
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Come Help Hint Obscurity
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We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

Agriculture Closest Consumers Farm
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Character Exact Growth Language
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Act Free Imitators Initiative
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Depth Despair Dignity Fill
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Admit Belong Determines Honest
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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

Act Belief Convinced Courage
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Atlantic Balloon Boat Brush
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Afterwards Believing Evidence Full
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

High Judgments None Opinion
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Enemy Greatest Human Salvation
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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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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Ever Free High Hope
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Content How Impressive Matter
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