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Quotes by Author
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
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"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."
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"People shouldn't be ashamed of what they are. And it will help them, to gain self esteem and confidence."
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and always will solve the problems of the human race and divide those who achieve from those who might have been."
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"No one can take the shot for you."
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"Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action."
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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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"In a digitally connected world a byte of data can boost or bite your brand."
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"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
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"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
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"To carry each other's burdens, we must care for one another."
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"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
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"The wind is blowing. Don't bend if you want to please him."
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"If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and that special quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and that builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance. ['The unbearable heaviness of being']"
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"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
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"A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is...but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone, endure hardships and learn from what challenges them. Suffering purifies and makes beautiful, but only if the gem can shine."
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"The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not."
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"A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window."
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"If you are willing to persistently hold strong to your goals and dreams, it would only become a matter of time until impossibilities start to become possibilities in your life."
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"What makes your brand stick and tick is your ability to make it memorable."
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"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
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"I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't."
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"There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast."
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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration."
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"Your purpose distinguishes you from others; not your talent, IQ, race, job, hobbies, or gender, as these are held in common with many others."
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"Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ['Waiting for a place behind the geraniums ']"
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"Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection."
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"Be happy with yourself to encourage others."
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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
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"The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it."
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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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"Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda.The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis."
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"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."
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"Are there things in your life that could use a face lift? What neglected treasures could be given new life by restoring them to their former glory? When you renovate and restore, you show respect for what was and bring it back to a state of beauty, usefulness, value, or vigor."
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