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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Feel Own Grow Owe
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Presume City State Eloquent
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”; in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Time Parents Diversity Strength
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

Moral Law Soul Universe
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I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Insight Capacity Good Evil
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

Understand Complex Believe Think
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say

Select Nature Make Success
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

Suffer Know Terribly Cause
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Decide Right Open Heart
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Pain Learn When Have
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Life Learn Through Throw
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Develop Courage Stand Enough
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Goal Love Pursue Instead
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Work Honest Think Courage
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Believe Important Single Dare
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I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Seem Today Better Tomorrow
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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We need to not be in denial about what we’ve done, what we’ve come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Help Done Through Denial
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Nature Mercy Snow Bikini
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Apartment Because Casually Cost
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life Great Dance Song
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life Save Own First
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Heart Hidden Seek God
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You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.

Listen Interest Sense Confidence
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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I’ve learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Learn Great Gift Give
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I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Life Give Second Chance
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We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.

Love Alive Life Each
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Total Everything Heard Seen
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

People Grow Agem Space Parking
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Pure Life Realize Art
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Spend Hour Adoring Wise
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Soul Liberate Benefit Among
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It’s very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Affair Hard Adult Respect
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don’t mean sentimentality, I don’t mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different.

Believe Scent Love Different
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If you want to liberate someone, love them. Not be in love with them – that’s dangerous.

Liberate Dangerous Someone Love
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