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I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.

Born Make Fake Mistake
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We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together.

Live Being Love Together
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People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them not to like me. But the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Build Life Story People
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Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Die Everybody Live But
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I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

Back Going Down Someone
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Alive Man Know One
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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Soul Next World Culture
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Free Either Least Know
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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Feel Own Grow Owe
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Presume City State Eloquent
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Heart Sing Song Poet
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“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”; in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Hero Among Wise Found
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Mission Survive Thrive Passion
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Angry Help Person Two
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Price Pay Choose Get
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Good Anyone Else Myself
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Alone Enough Prove Anybody
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Encounter Defeat Must Many
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
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When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power.

Worth Power Room Walk
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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We need to not be in denial about what we’ve done, what we’ve come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Help Done Through Denial
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Flesh Blood Hunger Set
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Alas the last of the great Titans… The great one who pricked himself on a senticous bush as he pushed for the freedom of his people from oppression… An epitome of sophronization…We shall not cry, rather we will celebrate a life truly well lived…

Great Titan Pricked Freedom
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A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum-crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigeria’s “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy”…. Certainly not democracy!

Celebration Democracy Deprecable Apotheosis
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Encourage Courtesy Accept Nothing
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it’s more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Translate Another Race Fall
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If you want to liberate someone, love them. Not be in love with them – that’s dangerous.

Liberate Dangerous Someone Love
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Seen Have Could Other
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Order Always Which May
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Wild Horse Paint Wildness
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Diary Way Keep Paint
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Artist Another God Only
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