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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."
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"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."
"No matter how hard things get, you owe it to yourself to always find a way to persist and persevere until you are greatly rewarded for all your pain and sufferings."
"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."
"The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
"Everything yields to diligence."
"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."
"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
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"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."
"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."
"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."
"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."
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