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Quotes by Author
"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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"Emergency dance party--go away."
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"If you are thinking of making everyone happy, you are going to be a great prostitute."
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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"The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment."
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"You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!"
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"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
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"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
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"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
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"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"All great and precious things are lonely."
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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 a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
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"I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God."
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"We are each a product of our biological endowments, culture, and personal history. Culture ideology and cultural events along with transmitted cultural practices influences each of us. We are each the product of our collective interchanges. Our county's domestic and interlinked international conflicts fuse us together. We are each a molecule in the helix of human consciousness joined in a physical world. We form a coil of connective tissue soldered together by cultural links."
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"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
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"Don't join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don't be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value."
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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
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"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
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"If you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready."
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"Birthday, Birthday, Birthday! Celebrate your day of birth, no matter the circumstances of your birth. Be thankful and joyful for the gift of life on this divine day."
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
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"A man that is focused on his purpose always saves his time."
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"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
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"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
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"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
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"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."
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