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Quotes by Author
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
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"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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"If your name is "canoe" and you can't float on water, you are useless! If they call you "cutlass" but you can't chop anything into pieces, you are a waste! You have a unique role, you are a brand! Do what you were created to do!"
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"Righteousness gives a person the right to God's protection."
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
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"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."
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"True greatness consists in being great in little things."
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"Sometimes when you are falling down, you grow wings to fly."
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"Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others."
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"Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
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"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
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"Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you."
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"Life is all about conversion."
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"A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket."
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"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
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"Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian."
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"At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest."
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"Love is like sunshine, it nourishes our soul to bloom flowers of happiness."
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"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
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"Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain."
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"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
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"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."
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"Time alone helps us to remember who we are."
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"Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different."
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"When you have pictured and defined your desired legacy, allow your present life activities and efforts to begin reflecting the future you desire. Begin to do what you want to see, become involved in the causes you want to be a part of. Show your legatees how you want and expect things to be done after you are gone. This will enable them to fit the vision into their own as they make their own individual unique mark."
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"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
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"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."
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"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law."
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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
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