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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Anger Any Failings Fault
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Character Determine Example Follow
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Greater Heaven Little Little Things
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

First Say Then Would
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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Alive Argue Became Clause
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Accordingly Adorn First Know
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Be True Correct Evil Laugh
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Cutting Down Element Later
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Lie Loudest When Ourselves
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Also Beginning Disagreement Only
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Believe Common Everyday Indifferent
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

Able Cut Dress Fashion
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I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

Course Love Romantic Very
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Apostles Believe Believes Course
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Along Among Ancient Beach
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God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Assuming Becoming Course God
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

Doors People Personality
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If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

Art Laughter Tears
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Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Art Available Excitement
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Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

Cacophony Enough Grass Life
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You are a leader of the past, of now and of the future; you will rise again; I wish you the best you wish yourself.

Past Rise Best Wish
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You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Come Fortunate Know Lucky
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Enemy Friend Heart Hundred
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Against Barriers Built Find
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Because Close Dangerously Everything Find
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Always Best Destroy Discouraged
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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Destroy Hate Them Then
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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Above Born Both Common
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Become Being Eligible Opponents
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Application Deduction Direct Inference
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The shadows we see on others and complain about, were cast on them by our own selves. Go to your friend and you will notice that your shadow falls on them. In truth, we see the world not as it is, but as we are. Change yourself. Change your world

Shadows Complain Truth Friend
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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Accept Been Christian Course
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ask Fair Not Fair Others
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Any Ask Cannot Favor
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbours!

Everyone Says Like Girl
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
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Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

Door Always That Says
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Dont dominate people. They will rebel against you. Rather, dominate yourself and people will nominate you as their leader

Rebel Dominate Yourself Leader
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Door Honest Just Just Be
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Don't let what people say about you define your views of yourself. People's opinion is not credit alert. It doesn't add value or take from you.

Value Credit Define People
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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