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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Accept Defeat Goal More
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

Any Became Because Go
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Become Being Breaking Changed
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

Before Break Came Children
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Happiness Virtue Pleasure Growth
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Away Cut Forth God
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Actions Going Habit He
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Decide Given Time Us
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Friend Mine Shorthand Talk
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Follow Fought Gains Leads
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading

Kind Other People Reading
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Because Begin Care Environment
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Always Been Belief Best
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Finish Job Longest Never
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Burning Burning Desire Desire Knowledge
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Farewell He Road Says
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Cannot Deal Death Deserve
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specifi

Become Convinced Exist Greatest
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Any Before Defeat Easiest
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Any Burning Burning Desire Cut
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Best Calls Come Enjoyment
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Achieve Beliefs Feelings Harmony
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Beloved Certain Friends Good
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Consciousness Delight Focused Gift
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Beings Body Everyday Experience
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Down Feel Letting People
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You may be broke, but that should not mean that you should also be broken.

You Broken Mean Broke
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Am Chapters Costs Could
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

About By The Time Down Every
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Accuse Agony Created Did
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Exactly Know Mean It
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Artist Being Constantly Could
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Bastards Cries Eyes Heart
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Always Emotions Personally Poets
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art Arts College Fine
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare Myself Places Say
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

After Cats Dark Dogs
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
Black Blue Green Grey
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