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"One does not go to Moscow to get fat."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."
"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"
"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."
"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."
"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."
"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."
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"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works."
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
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