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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."
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"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."
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"If you cannot score just a point each day, you shall score zero points at the end of your days."
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"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."
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"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."
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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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"You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others."
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"It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin."
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"A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
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"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."
Honor
"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
People
"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
Connection
"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."
Man
"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
Independence
"I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right."
Thought
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
Fact
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
Writing
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
Intelligence
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
Honor
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