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Quotes by Author
"Sometimes, challenging a person to do their best is the most kind and compassionate thing you can do for them."
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"Eye Contact. Direct eye contact is one of the best compliments you can give to another. You are subliminally telling them that you are listening, they matter, and that what they have to say is important."
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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
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"We often hate others because we fail to understand them."
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"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."
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"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale."
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"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
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"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
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"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."
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"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."
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"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
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"Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you."
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"When you truly love someone, you don't want anything except giving everything you have."
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"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
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"Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too."
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"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."
Life,
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"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."
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"Live your greatest dreams."
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
Man,
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"Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance."
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"You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?"
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