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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Astonishing Brains Definitely Effort
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Around Because Goes Hard
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Body Cells Community Inhabitants
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Anything Invent Proof Sale
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Behind Denying Everything Exists
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Ability Far More Opportunity Than
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art Masters Mind Old
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Balance Happiness Harmony Intensity
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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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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Earth Event Every His
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anything Anything Else Attachment Else
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Challenge Obviously Our Own
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Anything Attitude Day Enjoy
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Art Friendship Give Philosophy
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Cell Darkness Diminish Glory
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ahead Behind Better Kind
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True Christianity False Importance
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Always Direct Implement Keep
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

World Christ Died Individually
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage Every Form Point
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Expense Gratified Instinct Claim
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Capitalists Criminals Cut Enemies
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Everyone Future Hour Minutes
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Imagination Meaning Natural Truth
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Gentle Gradual Hell Milestones
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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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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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

About Been Discover Discovery
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
About Egos Elites Masses
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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Give Itself Known Make
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Analysis Else Existence Fails
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Articulate Doers More Since
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Conscience Demands Difficult Fidelity
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Between Big Country Democrats
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Classroom Done Learning Least
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Hell History Modern Nations
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Bureaucrats Everything Never Nothing
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Attentive Being Courage God
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