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Quotes by Author
"Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams."
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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
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"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."
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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
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"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
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"Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap."
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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
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"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
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"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."
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"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."
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"Like a floating feather in the air, take life very lightly and joyfully adjust to the flow of life."
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"Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you."
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"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
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"Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give."
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"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
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"Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?Who am I?How conscious am I?Am I conscious or obnoxious?"
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"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life."
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"Boot camp sucks - SEAL training sucks - but you know what? That's what makes you good."
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"A woman is soft, kind, and loving. When you are in danger, she is always ready to sacrifice herself to save you. So never forget to respect her."
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"There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it."
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose."
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"As a business leader you have to ask yourself, "Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?" If the answer is no, FIX IT!"
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise."
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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call 'God's birds' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?"
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