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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Does Gives He His
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I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Any Draw Gotta Guys
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

About Affairs Beginning Careful
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So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?

Always Buddies Conservative Fun
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Mastering Others Power Strength
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Cook Fish Govern Great
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My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Because Best Best Way Field
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

Ambitious Anyone Attracted Attracts
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Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

All Day Been Maybe Me
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Anything Be Yourself Goose Itself
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Capital Directly Greater Higher
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

About Because Believe Better
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I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Also Camera Dedicated Digital
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Actual Actually Always Amount
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

Before Big Businesses Characterized
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Everything Fountain Gladness Heart
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Back Become Brothers Brothers And Sisters
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Make Mediocre Other People
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Affections History Life Life Is A
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age Feeling Matter Years
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Between Come Empty End
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HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

HIV Does Not People
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Amazon Big Customer First
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Adversity Broad Dark Daylight
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

Because Cool Mars People
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Car Data Drive Efficient
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Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Companies Great Industries Lot
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I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Further Gigantic Little Lottery
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We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

Better Going Leave Make
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Build Humans Interesting Live
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

Cannot Company Dorm Giant
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Commercial Enterprise Government Improving
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

About Ask Change Forget
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Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

Children Course Essential Explore
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Delights Fills Majesty Noble
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

End Important Life Match
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Changed Doing Good Illusion
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Enough Little Man Nothing
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Enmity Felicity Marriage Strife
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Charity Christmas Fire Flame
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

He Heart Imagination Senses
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

After Beauty Been Charms
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Abundant Companionship Equal Good
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Amazing Amazing Thing Ang Lee Lee
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

Dark Just Many Movies
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Goes Great Known Sam
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Actor Been Boy Career
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