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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Authentic Capacity Create Endure
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Fool Learns Once Him
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Own Need Alone Left
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Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.
Learn Continually More Thing
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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Spilled Cruelty Necessary Disharmony
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Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Things Change World Important
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Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

Innovation Features Everything Crucial
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
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I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Better Everybody Change Want
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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To go forward you have to leave something behind.
Forward Leave Something Behind
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Hope Person Defeated Does
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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Convince Separates Entrepreneurs Perseverance
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.2

Belongs .Own Mine Feeling
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Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

Brings Toghether Hatred Mutual
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Work Hate Love Someone
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

Laugh Happens Myself Screw
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We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.
Settle Excellence Anything Less
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Favorite Life Money Precious
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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Mellower Angry THings Over
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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

Country Learn Program Computer
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Politicians Nature Sector Great
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I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Dysfunctional Child People Generic
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Literate Healthy Peaceful Planet
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Horrible Hold Feel Maybe
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Ages Generals Knights Like
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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Fortune Good Good Fortune Governments
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Customer Ask Want Time
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Working Game Changer Confidence
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Prone Error Humans Upgrade
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Curiosity Important Feed Incite
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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
Buy Things End Ridiculous
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