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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Finish Job Longest Never
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Deserve Half Know Less
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Burning Burning Desire Desire Knowledge
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specifi

Become Convinced Exist Greatest
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Just Never Right Time
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Accomplishment Breaks Capable Energy
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Conceive Eyes Ideas Just
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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Always Brains Dangerous Money
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

About Going Just Much
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Another Blind Needs Person
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Carbon Character Man Persistence
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

See Terrible Thing Vision
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiography Distort Facts Fiction
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Any Burning Burning Desire Cut
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Attained Beyond Failure Great
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Best Calls Come Enjoyment
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Any Idea May Mind
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

After Effort Fully Only
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Drawn Enough Eye Hold
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I've never abandoned the novel.
Abandoned Never Novel
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Art Biography Done Great
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Alone Little Much Together
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Consume Happiness Producing Right
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Most Pathetic Person Sight
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Beloved Certain Friends Good
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Purpose
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Adversity Being Challenging Courage
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
Authority Feel ICan Many
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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A big bum is better than qualifications in Nigeria

Nigeria Better Qualifications Bum
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Confidence is a strength. Overconfidence is a weakness. Ambition is a strength. Over ambition is a weakness. Balance the scale, so you are always in the middle.

Confidence Overconfidence Weakness Strength
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You don't have to die to go to hell. You can be righteous and live in hell on Earth.

Die Hell Righteous Earth
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

Big Business Getting Go
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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Short cuts make long delays.
Cuts Delays Long Make
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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