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"There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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Personal Development
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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Personal Development
"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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Personal Development
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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Personal Development
"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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Personal Development
"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
Leadership
"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
Governance
"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."
Success
"Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win."
Wisdom
"There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up."
Relationship
"The future belongs to those who innovate."
Innovation
"Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are."
Identity
"Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay."
Self
"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."
Discipline
"I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough."
Politics
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