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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Moment Ennobles Place Great
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

After Because Careers Countless
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Despised Holiday Worth Father
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

Adolescence Any Arrows Book
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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?

Accepting Anger As Certain
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

Film Sword Insist Room
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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

American Free Freedom Idea
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
Aspect Molecules Life Sketchy
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No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Barack Capital Capital Gains Income
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Always Cliff Control Hoping
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Prosperity Blessing New Old
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God Greatest Smallest Wire
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Adolescent Being Danger Humanity
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When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Kid Store Toy Train
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I invented the cordless extension cord.

Cord Extension Invented
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More law, less justice.
Justice Law Less More
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Alive Although Becoming Healthy
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Man Learned Secret Drudgery
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Won Undertake Thing Persistence
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles Melt Cowering Minds
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

God Qualified Sinner Work
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Again Attained Certainly Experience
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Beings Culture Finite Human
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Age Analysis Consider Cultural
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Anywhere Use Walking
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Blessed Servant Brother Sick
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It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

Easy Love God Beautiful
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Men Fail Through Lack
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We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

Called Heal Wounds Unite
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If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

Endure Patiently Gladness Thinking
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

Jesus Disciples Often Excuses
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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

Reality Worthy Useless Attempt
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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
Moral Principles Depend Majority
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Help Distress Lighten Own
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Bear Closest Eye Her
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Air Built Castles Foundations
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Better Faith Fruit Happiness
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Happiness Accident Nature Beautiful
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