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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
Hell
"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
World
"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
Duty
"Custom is second nature."
Nature
"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
Being
"The verdict of the world is conclusive."
World
"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
Guilt
"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
Friendship
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
Moderation
"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
Faith
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