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"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."

"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."

"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."

"Refuse to react to any angry actions."

"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."

"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."

"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."

"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism."

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."

"I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government."

"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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