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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Honest Maintain Character Possess
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Culture Conditioned Knowing Live
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ Improving Writings Labored
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living, but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Opportunity Living Dignity Labor
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Educated Mind Entertain Thought
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Worth Write Reading Either
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Vices Peace War Neighbors
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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
Will Mine Soft Make
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

How Had Slain Friend
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Essential Obtain Little Liberty
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People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Motivation People Last Neither
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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Key First Life Worth
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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Spend Time Goal Move
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Always Yourself Look Duplicate
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Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Positive Choice Master Attitude
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If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
Within Thing Depend Theme
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Obey Being Bound Them
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Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Your Cup Empty Devoid
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Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.

Reward People Fault Find
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
Mistake Nothing Because Think
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Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

Attitude Aptitude Altitude Determine
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Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Motivation Habit There Going
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

When Infinitely Tough Easier
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“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

Best Saying Necessary Doing
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“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Democracy Government Other Worst
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“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
Destiny Mistake Look Ahead
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

Rule Criticize Abroad Attack
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Realize Catastrophy Between Know
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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Easy Break Spirit Lifetime
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Spend Manner Waste Forever
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Life Your State Constant
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Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Life Never Thing Move
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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

Wish Long Covet Myself
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Accept People Inspire Dwell
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“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
Measure Human Life Destroy
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

Compare Cease Peace Live
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Notice Tree Crack Bend
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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Use Work Take Place
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When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Reach Form Water Style
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
What Determine Become Think
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Aspect Easy Special Waste
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction

Knowledge Skill Float Empty
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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Fear Better Great Know
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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Set Form Adapt Grow
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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Tense Ready Dream Aware
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Mistake Outcome Victory Nature
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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Determine Trouble Reject Ambition
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