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Haters will broadcast your failures, but whisper your success.

Success Whisper Faliure Hater
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When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

Else Hold Life Pen
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Everybody has an addiction, mine happens to be success.

Mine Everybody Success Has
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I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

Better Could Picture Learn
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Teach Same Work Thing
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Alive Man Know One
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Work Most Part Important
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

State Music Change Danger
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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Soul Next World Culture
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Exercise Harm Body Hold
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Every Seem Most Desire
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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Society Describe Grow Reality
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Free Either Least Know
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

Sense Common Remember Eye
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Feel Own Grow Owe
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Money Company Standard Value
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Price Good Evil Rule
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Presume City State Eloquent
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Liberty Most Extreme Slavery
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

State Person Ought Good
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy Form Government Variety
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Wise Speak Fool Say
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Heart Sing Song Poet
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Music Soul Universe Wing
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Kind Meet Battle Fighting
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“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”; in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dirt Nourish Grow Stunt
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Hero Among Wise Found
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive Child Afraid Dark
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Those Able See Beyond
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Mission Survive Thrive Passion
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
True Exist Equal Between
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Time Parents Diversity Strength
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Beauty Style Grace Depend
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Moral Law Soul Universe
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Angry Help Person Two
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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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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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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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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
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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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If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Future Fulfill Worry Obligation
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say

Select Nature Make Success
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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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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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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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