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Quotes by Author
"The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom."
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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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"The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within."
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"People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more..."
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"I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot."
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"Leaders are made to be rivers not reservoirs."
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"Too often, many people choose goals that are not inspiring and empowering to them."
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"This song is for my Molly, who is the best fucking thing that s ever happened to me. Also, for those suicidal idiots sending her fan mail asking her to run away with them, I will hunt you down and rip off you nuts."
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"Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference."
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"Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality."
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"If we go on like this, there won't be anything left to fight for."
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"Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it."
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"Maintain purity of heart.Trust in the process.Hold steadfast to your belief of self.Never loose sight of your smile."
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"God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days."
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"Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand."
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"I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me."
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"Abandon your resentments, they keep you small."
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"Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then it closes. This results in liberation. I suggest spending less time on trying to change thoughts and more time on the action steps you will take to prove your current thoughts wrong. Once you take consistent, habitual action the thoughts change, spontaneously."
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"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
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"I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it."
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"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
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"What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real."
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"When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'."
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"Recent discoveries in developmental psychology and other behavioral disciplines have shown that babies are born with a "first draft of a moral mind. Among others, brain scientist, Gary Marcus, has described this moral understanding as "already defined and organized before experience. Evolutionary psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, describes this first draft of the moral mind as consisting of five primary values. Modern cross-cultural anthropologists point to these same five primary values as the foundation of all cultures, currently and historically, and 21st century ethologists suggest the same values apply to most if not all species."
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"It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not."
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"Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure."
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"People would rather be equal thank free."
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"In the aftermath of destruction, a silence settles " the stillness of fresh loss. People's cheerful chatter is fainter, the blue color of sky dimmer; now that horror is undeniable and feels inescapable, the value of life seems lessened."
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"I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example."
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"The problem with the church is the church."
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"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
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"I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history."
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"Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative."
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"Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal."
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"Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness."
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