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"You create your world with your thoughts."

"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."
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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
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