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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Shallow Frustrating Absolute Understanding
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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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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
Will Mine Soft Make
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Want Should Path Success
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes

Love Fire Flame Light
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Wise Man Fool Learn
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“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

History World Nations Strong
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“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”

Shape Dwelling Afterwards Our
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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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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

Wish Long Covet Myself
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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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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.

Dedicate Concept Between Image
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Because Want Pattern Become
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What is” is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.

More Should People Think
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to s

Harmony Strength Force Natural
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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is ho

Shame Knock Down Reflect
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival
Heart Suffer Inspiration Survive
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“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

English Draw Line Blur
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“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
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“We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finis

Trials Battle Fail Weak
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Perfect Friendship Excellence Good
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Miseries Capitalism Socialism Virtue
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”

Broad Short Word Best
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Precious Truth Wartime Should
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Neither Coward Rash Courage
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Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Something Perfectly Market Shutdown
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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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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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like

Fun Long Difficult Lunch
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We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

People Work Admire Should
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

River There Hurry Shall
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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