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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction

Knowledge Skill Float Empty
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Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory

Finger Away Moon Glory
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Educate Mind Heart All
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

Maker Prepared Ordeal Meet
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Success Courage Failure Final
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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Love is composed of single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love Single Soul Body
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Men acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Acquire Quality Particular Way
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Great Talent Effort Woman
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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Stay Forest Come Them
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Ignorance Leverage Combine Result
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Writing Check Commitment Conversation
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Love Divorce Married Man
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Subject Dictate System Engage
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Wealth Subtle Doom Destiny
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It t

Understand Man Exciting Challenge
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

Teenager Company Flirting Indifferent
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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Love Life Me God
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.

When Food Need Wait
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When a fish rots, the head stinks first

Fish Rot Head First
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One whose seeds have not sprouted does not give up planting.
One Seed Have Give
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If while climbing a tree you insist on going beyond the top, the earth will be waiting for you.

While Tree Climb Earth
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

You Never Happy Search
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The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Thing Stop Reason Has
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of

Truth Liberty Goal Advance
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Has Who Person More
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Explore Traveling Jamaica
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Gain Sure Certain Love
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame

Risk Thing Price Fame
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