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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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