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"Always try to be someone of value than someone famous."

"Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment."

"I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present."

"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."

"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."

"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."

"I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life-- personal development, relationships, business, and the like."

"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."

"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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