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"It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."
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"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
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"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."
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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
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"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"
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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
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"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
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"A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted."
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"If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving."
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"How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?"
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
Legacy

"A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather."
Wellness

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Reflection

"Half a truth is often a great lie."
Truth

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
Work

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
Learning

"If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles."
Wisdom

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
Freedom

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Growth

"We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately."
History
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