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"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
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"With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal."
"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"
"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
"If you cannot score just a point each day, you shall score zero points at the end of your days."
"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."
"To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up."
"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
"You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others."
"Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts."
"Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade."
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"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
"I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that."
"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
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