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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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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Strength Down Way Exerting
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Lift Else Someone Yourself
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Believe Mind Human Heartbeat
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Recognize Daily work Ledger Firework
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Happy Opportunity Someone Worth
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Chosen First Flight Circumstances
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The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.

World Able Care Little
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Evil Attention Action Alone
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Cultivate Weak Love Unfortunate
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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Majority Good Right Truth
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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Education is not a thing apart from life—not a

Work System Life Education
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Growth Great Trials Remain
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer,

Today Accept Love Answer
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Wisdom Awaken Security Scripture
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Demand Faith Courage Present
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Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

Experience Taught Connect Best
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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

Victorious Flinched Questioned Faitful
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Expect Pull Weak Strong
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Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Keep Sit Life Disappear
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Begin Feel Lead Treason
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I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Save People Economy Policy
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Effort Deem Very Proclaim
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There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Form Strategy Confidence Succeed
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Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

Reward Worth Walk Exactly
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It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Life Observation Exercise Patience
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I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

Feel Guilty Sometimes Like
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Atheism Look System Solar
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Leadership Danger Celebrate Victory
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Together Living Admired Conception
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Climbing Hill After Only
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Change Liberate Accept Oppresses
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.

Human Subject Declare Rational
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Least Life Worth Greatest
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Logic Pride Vanity People
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Important World Kept Hope
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Power Rest Turn Moral
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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

Listen Talk Someone Hours
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Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Power Applied Knowledge Until
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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Dream Remain Understood Mere
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Special Ability Heavy Energy
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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