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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."

"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."

"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."

"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."

"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."

"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."

"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"

"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."

"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
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"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."

"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
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