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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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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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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
Writing

"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."
Leadership

"Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
Being

"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
Happiness

"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."
Time

"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."
Work

"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
Society

"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
Life

"Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru."
Health

"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
Writing
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