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"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."
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"I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."
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"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."
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"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."
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"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."
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"Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts."
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"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."
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"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"
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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."
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"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
Influence


"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
Self-Improvement


"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
Power


"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."
Thought


"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
Intelligence


"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."
Life


"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
God


"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
Experience


"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."
Man


"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
Conflict
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