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"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."
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"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."
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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet."
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"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
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"I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby."
Heart
"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."
Wisdom
"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."
Happiness
"Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution."
Thought
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
Death
"The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects."
Life
"The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep."
People
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
Life
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
Deed
"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
Family
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