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It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.

Enough Life Series Unbroken
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

Anything Better Control Definitely
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I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

Allowed Bite Bringing Deserve
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

Big Field Matter Off
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

Any Could Going Kid
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I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.

Blackjack Hate Losing Marbles
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I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

Able Beard Ever Fear
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Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.

Been Day Enough Every
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Man Greater Enemy Himself
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Again Beginning Care Dead
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Book Heart Close Articulate
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Between Distance Late Too
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Truth Better Good Than
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Above After Good Health
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Advance Foolishly Great Individuality
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Apply Become Cries Efforts
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Attracted Constantly Grace Improve
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Man Proposed Enemy Contrary
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Being Character Emergencies Failure
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Anyone Art Better Crown
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Freeze Sweet Flood Tears
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Always Better Expected Matter
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

About Always Better Day
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Always Best Harvest Later
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

After Because Careers Countless
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One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

Again Back Couple Down
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The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

Awe Before Goals Height
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The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Cream Life Chance Unexpected
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Bed Bodies Bundle Early
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Children Created Happy Ignore
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Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

Palate Reflection Humilating Straightest
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Fond People Really Telling
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Early Late Maturing Mind
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Beyond Control Exciting Forces
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Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!

Heaven Hell Interesting People
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One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

Love Lifetime Year Alone
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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Again Come Fate Life
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Cancel Finger Half Having
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

Class English Filled Forward
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Accepted Attacked Color Expected
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It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

Auditorium Blind Classroom Date
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I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

Camera Help Just Moron
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

Afraid Am Dad Dreaded
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

Cup Favorite Heaven Hot
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Broke Business Cities Favorite
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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Doing Grew I Write Long
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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Child Favorite Feels Impossible
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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