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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

When Infinitely Tough Easier
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Realize Catastrophy Between Know
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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Easy Break Spirit Lifetime
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Life Your State Constant
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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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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Fear Better Great Know
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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Set Form Adapt Grow
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Mistake Outcome Victory Nature
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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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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“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
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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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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Important Yourself Hole Digging
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong

Life Things Right Wrong
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It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Associate Behave People Direction
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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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 an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Sometime Thing Room Heart
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Mind Sex Saving Resume
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
Important Investment Yourself Make
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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Control Time Agenda People
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Come Together Keep Heart
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When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Stuck River Dive Bank
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

Independent Marry Rich Poor
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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

Living Through Yourself Better
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Reach End Rope Hang
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Purpose Feel Power Regret
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And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

End Year Life Count
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Love Man Marry Feather
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.

Bear Mind Success Important
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Fight Mother Save Fortune
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Easy Keep Spouse Happy
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Best Way Predict Future
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Leave Lamp Burn Equal
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

Man Marriage Mind Time
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Love Soul Crawl Hiding
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Silent Pain Enjoy Kill
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If you overtake a leader, you break your neck.

You Break Neck Leader
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