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…You’re bound to meet a lot of stumbling blocks, and you’re bound to fail at certain things, but the number of times you fail is not the issue, it is the number of times you pick yourself up, dust yourself and continue your journey.

Meet Stumbling blocks Fail Times
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Even though your family and friends discourage you, and you know where you’re going, keep your focus and surround yourself with positive minds.

Your family Friends Discourage you Focus
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When your own journey is not taking the straight course you’d like, it’s easy to focus on what someone else is doing.

Own journey Straight course Focus
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Yes, share your time, but don't invest more in others than in yourself.

Share Time Invest Yourself
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Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Poor Country People Population
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Affluence Any Borrow Flour
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It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Important Learn People Surround
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It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

Being Better Father Go
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If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Better Flaws Happy Learn
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Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

Ambition Anything Anything Else Doing
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Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

Collapse Course Exercise Friends
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Afternoon Couch Day Dog
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People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

People Believe Hard Seen
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Work Business Universe Eyes
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Conformity Everyone Likes Reward
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I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Anything Children Even Feels
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When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Crap Doubt Good Level
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Increasingly, you’ll find that any task that is repetitive will be replaced by technology. We must, therefore, retrain and reskill our people and ourselves to fit into the new world.”

Increasingly Task Repetitive Technology
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Over the years, I’ve realized that the people you surround yourself with go a long way in affecting your achievements.

Realized People Surround Affecting
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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Things Bad Best time Reinvent
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It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Hard work Movies Long hours Emotional
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness

Guard well Treasure Kindness Hesitation
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Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Know Replace Heart Happiness
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Being Complexities Human Means
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Do not be too quick to cast away your pain, let it run its course, do not take any shortcuts.
Do not Cast away Pain Shortcuts
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It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Difficult Learn Over Regulate
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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

City Difficult More Rule
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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Practice Teach Trumpet Play
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

About Could Course Going
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Exactly Life Looking Mirror
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You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Confront Destroy Fall Fear
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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Don't waste your years focusing on others! focus on yourself.....work on yourself.....educate yourself....get creative.....have time for yourself.

Don't waste Focusing Educate yourself Work
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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Treat yourself the way you would treat someone you love.

Treat Yourself Love Someone
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The people who raised us left Themselves in Us, some in tiny particles and some a whole lot. It would take certain events for those particles to reveal themselves. Be careful my dear, Not all attributes are Yours

People Be careful Reveal Particles
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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Alien Chunk Go Going
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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Love is not love until you share it. Love is not love until you give it away. Sometimes the person you should share it with is yourself but unfortunately most people don’t think they are deserving of their own Love.

Love Share it Give it Yourself
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

Acts Measures Never Ourselves
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You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Although Because Ignore In The Past
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
Most powerful Nation Terrorist organization Defeat us
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

Avoid Tribalism Divided Among ourselves
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

Our youth Advantage Modern civilization Idleness
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Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

Discouraging hours Arise Accomplished goals
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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Set Our goals High Demand more
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Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Infuse Life Action Own future
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