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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

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Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property

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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts.

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History shows that the most famous winners usually had faced enormous difficulties. But they won because they refused to be defeated.

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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

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Without self-respect, there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success, what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his won self-respect.

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A business like an automobile it has to be driven in order to get results.

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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal.

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He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”

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You should remember that we need to consciously and constantly look for opportunities to increase the human happiness. Selfishness kills happiness.

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One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks.

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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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We are the change we have been waiting for.

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

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Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.

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Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

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Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.

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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

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