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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Fact History Intrigued Man
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Frame Hasty How Judgment
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Does Gives Him Immortality
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Character Control Create Man
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Astonishing Brains Definitely Effort
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What you are will show in what you do.

Show Will You What
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Everyone Future Hour Minutes
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Give Itself Known Make
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Actions Consistent Consistently Control
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Change Exactly Exactly What Lives
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Action Actually Enough Few
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Become Contribute Get Gives
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If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Always Done Get Gotten
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Affection Durable Happiness Lives
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Accomplish Achieve Decade How
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Entrepreneur Job Now Son
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Call Instrument Man Nature
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

Always Anything Clear Language
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Away Gave Had Half
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I see what keeps people young: work!
I See Keeps People See
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

It Is What It Is Marriages More Regret
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Adversity Care Get How
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Best Better Book Consist
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Always Depends Finds First
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Aims Heart Always Devoted
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

China Cows Entirely Farm
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Doing Know Knowing Not Knowing
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Behaviors Bodies Change Changing
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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Happens Responsibility Take Whatever
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

About Before Drawing Fit
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad Bad Government General Government
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