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What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.

Courage Raise Child Ability
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I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.

Advise Hand Useful Best
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Self Latter Accept Face
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Person Few Little Make
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Ability Genius Might Profound
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Rebel Direction Imitation Deep
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Little Good World Overwhelm
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Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are.

Confuse Attitude Depend Personality
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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Comfort Contentment End Come
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Reality Thought Dream Own
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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Pattern Reality Point Sense
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Life Good Moral Cheat
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Read Disarm Sorrow Secret
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Forever Wrong Tend Stay
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Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

Torture Innocent Soul Little
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Pride Simply Smitten Military
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Wealth Health Miracle Begin
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What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Essay Image Else Come
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Attitude Ability Capable Motivation
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Matter Blind Face Reality
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I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

Quality Imagination Myself Somebody
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I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Handle Worse Deserve Best
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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Learn Child Speak Teachers
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If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

You World
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

Down Life Past Move
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

Great Spoil Possibility Most
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Believe Been Denied Until
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Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

Blue Studio Environment Painting
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics End Participate Being
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There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same

Tendency Treat Prejudice Disability
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If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

Perfect Opportunity Lead Disability
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I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Twist Surface Clean Turn
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ability Listen Temper Almost
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

People Freedom Involve Want
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say,

Struggle Responsibility Living Ignorant
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Demon Disability Personal Sabotage
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Want Way Disability Call
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I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

People Because Travel Show
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wisdom Become Depend Believe
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

Relationship Parents Lithium Great
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Blame Fair Enough Alone
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Conscience Blush Sincerely Man
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Acknowledge Noble Qualities Bears
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Ignorance Begets Knowledge Frequently
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Glutton Tranquility
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Leaders Always Elected Habit
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

Socialism America Doubt Affect
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