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"In his private heart no man much respects himself."
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"The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms."
"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."
"Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood."
"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."
"Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it."
"Usually the term phobia refers to the psychological fear of the human mind from something that poses a threat. But when a species starts using the term fear against a biological portion of itself, there is nothing more demeaning than this."
"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."
"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."
"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."
"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed - because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."
"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."
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