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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Argue Compromise Compromised Greater
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Bigot Cannot Dare Fool
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Absence Asylum Complexion Due
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Basket Capital Concentrate Eggs
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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Business Credit Get Great
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Cheap Esteem Everything Gives
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Approval Best Consciousness Doing
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Accumulate Begin Difficult Difficult Task
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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Against Errors Every Formidable
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Class Else Money Nothing
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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Honor Self-Inflicted Wounds All
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Believe Consist Doing Duties
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Any Cannot Climb He
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Content How Impressive Matter
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability Anything Anything Else Else
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Awake Clearly Does Dreams
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Any Being Conscious Copies
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Against Align Because Change
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Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
Anything Day Gone Know
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

About Connections Future Having
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A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Bully Game Happy He
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Abandoned Because Distraction Early
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Aware Being Fear Mark
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Away Competition Find Invent
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Book Bunch Economics Favor
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

Again Building Changed Dying
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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Becomes Chooses Drives Get
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There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Academy Award Best Great
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I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Anybody Finding Genius Hates
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You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Ahead Always Best Fighter
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Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Believe Dealt Death Fear
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The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Pendulum Race Relations Sensitive
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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Accurate Around Biography Mind
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The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Appealing Becomes Dating Down
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I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Alone Always Else Everybody
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I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Advantage Along Breaks Came
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I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Always Bad Fall Nice
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If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Change Person Really Something
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As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Afraid Doubt Older Out
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If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Discipline Gone Good Music
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The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Craving Huge Information Rapid
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Elected Everybody Everything Get
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Create Latter Numerous Rare
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Achieved Failure Inevitable Know
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Fades Fashion Style Remains
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Always Different Irreplaceable Order
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Dresses Exists Fashion Happening
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Cares Decide Loses Someone
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