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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Channel Master Water Bend
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Life Part Total Every
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A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Poetess Died Young Cancer
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Think Know Most Even
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Ability Change Courage Happen
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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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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

Prepare Rainbow Cloud Somebody
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I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Seem Today Better Tomorrow
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Serve Paint Door Open
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Criticize Obvious Problem Care
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Look Depend Thing How
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whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Apply Good Lacking Supply
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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

Listen Talk Someone Hours
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Greatest Important Problem Outgrown
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Successful Forward Stop Fewer
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“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”

Accepting Outgrowth Part Life
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The midfielders are important: they have to offer themselves to receive the ball and make good use of it, take choices, try not to lose the ball and defend. But I don't feel like a leader at all.

Ball Choices Defend Feel
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Age Life Little Long
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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When someone feels trapped in what feels like a hopeless situation, pulling the trigger or swallowing pills or hanging yourself seems like the only way out.

Feel Pill Situation Out
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Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.

Desire Emotion Baby Stem
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Country Even Feeling Listen
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I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Because Defend Elected Except
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If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Along Get Really Somebody
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I think even outside of being an artist, anyone with success should always put themselves in a position to help others.

Always Position Other Anyone
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How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Longer Clear Truth Simple
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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Perhaps Nothing Moments Spiritual
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The females don’t respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don’t think, I’m gonna get this money on my own, they think, I’m gonna get money from this guy.

Female Respect Materialistically Guy
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Money Spent Men Mere
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Remember Against Airplane Wind
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Capacity Resources Some About
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There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Problems Little There Big
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Spend Energy Problems Trying
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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Customer Close Need Realize
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I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Entrepreneur Launch Cash Business
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Arouse Doom Flowing Nation
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Beauty Departure Independence Rely
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Behalf Caution Certain Errors
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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