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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Rule Expert Keep Become
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Artistic Artists Been Desired
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Another Breath Causes Flow
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
Writer Teach Basest Afraid
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Little Attitude Negative Big
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Create Desires Earth Flows
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

True Choice Power Always
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from

Found Greatest Problem Yourself
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man Performs Engenders Bear
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Something Jumping Fence Horse
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Seed Magic Adversity Benefit
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Another Bread Country Different
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

About Account Basis Distress
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
Inclined Think Military Background
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Tragedy Universe Physical Fear
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .

Sin Love Sound People
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Music Easiest Express Talent
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The company you keep affects the progress you make. Avoid people who have PROBLEMS for every SOLUTION. They will drag you down with them and then blame you for being the one that dragged them down. Keep good company

Company Problems People Solution
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Angels Appear Directly Dreams
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Give Heed Lives Must
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Asleep Away Because Fooling
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Baker Benevolence Butcher Dinner
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Animal Another Bargain Bones
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

AllThings First Gold Labour
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Rocks Cradle Light Sense
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Generosity Humanity Man Virtue
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Common Complaint Money More
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

AllThings First Labor Money
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature Only School Talent
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Attended Consumer Consumption End
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith Is Living Daring
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You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

About Admit Ashamed Gay
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I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Any Been Growing GrowingUp
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Justice Temporary Thing That
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.

Person Very Well
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Life Myself Need Never
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Any Data Experiment Failed
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Blah Crazy Each English
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Associated Once Past Smell
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Barriers Cultural Feel Few
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Beginning Being Chinese Controlled
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Activity Bath Communal Group
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