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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Decide Right Open Heart
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Life Learn Through Throw
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Develop Courage Pick Weight
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When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power.

Worth Power Room Walk
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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To develop courage you have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up.

Develop Courage Start Muscle
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A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum-crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigeria’s “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy”…. Certainly not democracy!

Celebration Democracy Deprecable Apotheosis
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You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.

Listen Interest Sense Confidence
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.

Forgive Much Stand Mean
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it’s more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Translate Another Race Fall
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If you want to liberate someone, love them. Not be in love with them – that’s dangerous.

Liberate Dangerous Someone Love
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

Spot Sun Art Transform
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Abstract Start Trace Reality
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Camp Artist World Art
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Chaste Ignorant Dangerous Forbidden
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All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.

Life Party Bitch Friend
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I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

Trust Friend Close Along
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
Family Work Hard Money
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

Home Animal Sleep Baby
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A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.
Life World Flower Without
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Challenges Combination Competition Disease
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.

Being Done Fun Giving
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Dangerous Place Footballer Friend
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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.

Always Prepared Care Father
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I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

Believe Cannot Career Explain
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Always Being Communication Could
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Create Art Passion Soul
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Shine Soul Egoless Humility
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Taught Die Dignity Mouth
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Peace Agony Soul Faith
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Hold Down Without Staying
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Good Quality Better Bad
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Succeed Patience Explain Begun
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Grow Great Convinced Education
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Wisdom Awaken Security Scripture
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Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

Experience Taught Connect Best
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

Word Adequately Explain Single
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Growth Effort Work Depend
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Class Right People Ultimate
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Together Living Admired Conception
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