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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ Improving Writings Labored
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Word Use Read Pierce
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Lack Direction Problem Time
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Relax State Level Student
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Prompt Never Away
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The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action

Self Great Proper Action
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Reduce Double Run
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Ornament Refuge Prosper Adversity
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Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.

Mirror Through Accessible Improve
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce t

Never Danger Prompt Flinch
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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

Victory Problem Defeat Less
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Great Talent Effort Woman
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Promise Remember Believe Strong
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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Trade Profit Forced Choose
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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

Diversification Ignorance Protection Sense
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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Promise Forget Thought Leave
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Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.
Promise Forget Even Hundred
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and

Language Married Nationality Dictionary
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Thing One Wise Seem
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Smart Girl Men Problem
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

Advice Logical Consistent Love
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I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

Beautiful Divorce Escrow Compulsive
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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

Victory Complete Proclaim God
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Macho does not prove mucho.

Macho Prove
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Grown People Think Know
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One whose seeds have not sprouted does not give up planting.
One Seed Have Give
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For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of

Time Race Mind Mouth
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But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Power Man Meet
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I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.

Improvise Movie
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The antics of a market buffoon provide laughter, but nobody prays that his child becomes the market buffoon.

Market Pray Child That
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When you mention the person with one eye, the one with the eye problem reacts.

When Eye React One
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If a blind man says he will throw a stone at you, he probably has his foot on one.

Stone You Foot One
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
People Jamaica Think Problems
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I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

Anybody Produce Pre-judge Care
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

You Universe Can Your
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

Problems America
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