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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away Counts Left Take
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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You cant find opportunity in yesterday. Opportunity begins with o, and o exists only in today and tomorrow. Don’t regret the failures of your past. Prepare for the successes in your future. Change your understanding of NO to mean Next Opportunity

Opportunity Yesterday Tomorrow Failures
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Yes, prayer is the key. But a key is USELESS without a door. Prayer may be the key, but work is the door that the key of prayer opens. Don’t confuse laziness for faith. After you have prayed, look for the work door that your prayer key will open

Prayer Useless Faith Door
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Don't race with the car in front of you. Drive your car at your own pace.
Race Car Drive Pace
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort Courage Enough Purpose
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If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

People Head Bow Confidence
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Problems Seek Truth Historical
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For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

Instance Name Unity Build
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Pain Endure Patience Die
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Happened Ages World Labored
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Ready Reason Man Spend
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Great Contest God Claims
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Public Sentiment Nothing Fail
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Sad World Sorrow Young
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Stand Right Goes Wrong
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Talked Great Men Differ
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Fearful Strain Night Day
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Public Sentiment Fail Nothing
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Man Good Govern Man
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Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

World Common Unsuccessful People
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Achieved Enthusiasm Ever Great
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Appetite Both Change Food
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I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it
Live World Created Art
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

All-Powerful Animals Architect Character
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Gifts Natural Rules Technical
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Clean Constant Freedom Hath
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Am Down English Friend
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Allowed Being Bipolar Constantly
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Balanced Easy Find Gifts
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Another Beautiful Help Helping
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Beautiful Carry Find Must
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Power Nation Confidence Nothing
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Afford Blessings Friends Old
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Self-interest Friendship Bitter Truth
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Wise Man Restrain Sense
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One Excellent Thing Learned
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It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Kind Outside Guess Guy
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Start with facts before you add your opinion

Start Facts Opinion You
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Wonder Aging Terror Confront
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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Beauty Been Culture Every
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Aware Because Become Experience
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It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Antagonism Culture Feel Fuse
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any Days Food Go
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.

Did Get Involved Rock
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My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

Because Connection Father Gave
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

Before Buy Came Cosmetics
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

Been Being Cultures Designers
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