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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Even Law Down Ought
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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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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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

History Intend Write Kind
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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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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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Sentence Something Preposition Which
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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes”

Stock Willing Owning Years
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Stock Understand Market Content
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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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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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Appear Patient Simply Fluff
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Value Along Listen Hear
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Pay Where Without Might
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
Intensity Price Excellence The
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Human Action Extend Nature
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
Husbands Attention Fire They
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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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You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Think Wrong Between While
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

Talent Attention Deserve Who
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

Hired Intense Method Force
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The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day.

Big Game Often Hunt
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Family Sense Nation Humour
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Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.

Love Like Baby Need
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Only Way Free Act
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and does.

Work Life Goes Rotten
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Habit Death Toward Body
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened

Dragonfly Hovering Face Enlightened
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I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me thirty years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Journey Supreme Dream Build
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Manufacture, don’t just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

Trade Even Start Product
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The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Good News Great Love
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Sympathy, love, fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Love Fortune These Tend
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It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Realize Wagon Only You
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Would Dead Not Worth
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Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.

Own Our Power Form
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Education Alone Faliure World
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Light Darkness Purpose Being
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Fierce Darkness Black Light
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art Understand Necessary Love
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Education Force Arbitrary Culture
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Gone Intend End Need
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Beauty Truth Virtue Vulnerable
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If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Miserable Shit Deserve Boring
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