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"If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent."
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"Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan."
"The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME."
"Convert your time into useful assets."
"Poverty is the mother of invention."
"You must learn to see everything around yourself as a resources, your opportunities, and turn them into your weapons to get them working in your favor, in order to achieve your goal."
"We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here."
"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
"A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources."
"Anybody have any money?Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and-score! A piece of celery.He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next."
"You must learn to see everything around yourself as your resources, your opportunities and turn them into your weapons so that everything works in your favor and helps to achieve your goal."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."
"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction."
"Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?"
"History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant."
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