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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Receive Wisdom Discover Ourselves
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Habit Faculties Dormant Done
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Time Passions Disposal Expand
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Bonds Unite Person Exist
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

People Dead Affection Faint
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.
Grateful People Make Charming
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People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

Poverty Bad Good People
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Time Difficulties Lose Sight
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“The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart.”

True Listen Ears Heart
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“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”

Work-hard Assert Mind Imagination
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions … by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

First Impressions Generated Experiences
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Value World Inhabit People
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We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

Spend Time Thinking Prestige
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Expression Words Never Coincide
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Family Court Justice Shuts
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Sometimes Laugh Ear Impossible
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If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Life Inevitably Colours Love
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Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

Despite Troubles World Love
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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Life Single-color Palette Meaning
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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

Interior World Reality Perhaps
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You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

Wonder Hours Flowers Life
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Spring Movement Life-stream Unconscious
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Must Accept Truth Source
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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

My-love Fear Silence Hands
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We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Captive Grows Fences Swallows
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Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless

Dreams Have Wind Night
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland

Learnt Worthy Blood Break
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She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Love You Metaphors Poet
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We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Journey Home Halo Head
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I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.

Opens Door Tree Dreams
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Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Time Poem Kill Slowly
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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

Want Someone Mentor Better
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Competitive Person Stays Stop
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Community Happy Support Business
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You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
Can Make Difference Whatever
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

People Smiling Court Think
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

Building Centers Theaters Inner-cities
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When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

Woman Frustrated Wife Husband
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Great Idea Research Demand
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Businessman Successful Person Team
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Ask Your Teammate Do
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Face Crisis Know True
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

Manhood Care Family Able
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

Motivate Making Sure Understand
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Lose Your Mind Grow
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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Aims Ambition Born Change
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Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

Big Success Sacrifices Denial
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

Many Figures History Believe
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If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Focus Future Generation Destroying
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