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

Born Make Fake Mistake
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When all is said and done, more is always said than done.
Done More Always Than
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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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It’s never too late to realize what you want in your life and it’s never wrong to fight for it.

Late Fight Wrong Never
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Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long.

Long Held Give Think
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Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Over Key After Patience
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When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

Else Hold Life Pen
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I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

Better Could Picture Learn
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Teach Same Work Thing
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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 beginning is the most important part of the work.

Work Most Part Important
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

State Music Change Danger
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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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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Exercise Harm Body Hold
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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Society Describe Grow Reality
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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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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

Sense Common Remember Eye
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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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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Price Good Evil Rule
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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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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Liberty Most Extreme Slavery
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

State Person Ought Good
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy Form Government Variety
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Kind Meet Battle Fighting
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dirt Nourish Grow Stunt
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive Child Afraid Dark
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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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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Time Parents Diversity Strength
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Moral Law Soul Universe
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I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Insight Capacity Good Evil
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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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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Future Fulfill Worry Obligation
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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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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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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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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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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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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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Enough Trust Love Courage
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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Always Never Amazing Normal
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Option Someone Priority Make
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Use More Have Creativity
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Lucky Solitary Fantasy Transform
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