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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness Purpose Pain
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Root Evil Think Money
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Control Understand Crop Domestic
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Being Beyond Power Only
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

State Value Which Proceed
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You Think Your Will
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

See Have People Our
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

Defend Family Stand When
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Treat Person Society Mean
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Good More Work Able
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

Worry Much Ground Know
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts.

Start Important How Count
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History shows that the most famous winners usually had faced enormous difficulties. But they won because they refused to be defeated.

Show Most Won Had
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Goal When Life Need
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He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”

Faith Inward Hope Most
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Spend your life on something that will outlast you.

Life Your You Will
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You should remember that we need to consciously and constantly look for opportunities to increase the human happiness. Selfishness kills happiness.

Need Look Human Remember
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Come Change Seek Time
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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Important Way Sure Each
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Thing Past Cloud View
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Race Believe Begin Fact
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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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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

Said Mistake Someone Live
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Peace Guard Secure Way
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He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Known Exact Time Spare
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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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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fool Have Honest Are
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I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.

Advise Hand Useful Best
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Life Old Wise Late
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We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

Truth Soul Loud Have
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Look Rate Waste Year
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Success Much Overcome Life
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Every Toward Current Develop
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Good Me Time Money
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We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Inevitable Charge Attitude Convince
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Attitude Choice Day Embrace
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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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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

What Happy Think About
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Little Good World Overwhelm
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Action Create Legacy Dream
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Love Appreciate Rather Compensate
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

House Art Nature Haunt
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,

Certain Person Speak Excuse
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

Stand Gave Talent Hope
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

Believe Impress Evidence Reject
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

Thankful Connect Receptive Audience
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Respect Around Cease Love
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