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"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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Personal Development
"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."
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Personal Development
"Increase must become your natural desire."
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Personal Development
"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."
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Personal Development
"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."
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"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."
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Personal Development
"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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Personal Development
"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."
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"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."
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"Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is."
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"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
War
"What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation."
Society
"Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people."
Self
"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."
Philosophy
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."
Curiosity
"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
Ideas
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
Hope
"To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn't necessarily our fault as individuals. Society as a whole appears determined to render the single state as nettlesome and depressing as possible: once the freewheeling days of school and university are over, company and warmth become dispiritingly hard to find; social life starts to revolve oppressively around couples; there's no one left to call or hang out with. It's hardly surprising, then, if when we find someone halfway decent, we might cling."
Society
"Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours."
Mind
"At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident."
Relationship
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