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"You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it."
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"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
Life

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."
Philosophy

"Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."
Creativity

"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
Education

"There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book."
Celebration

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
Family

"You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But - you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?"
Spiritual

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
Environment

"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."
Justice

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."
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Personal Development

"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."
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Personal Development

"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."
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Personal Development

"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."
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Personal Development

"The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style."
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Personal Development

"Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations."
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Personal Development

"Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it."
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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."
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"Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest."
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"Invest in yourself, because you will only ever achieve the level of success that matches your level of wisdom."
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