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"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed - because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."
"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."
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