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Quotes by Author
"The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object."
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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."
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"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."
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"The eye is the jewel of the body."
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"Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us."
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"The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives."
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"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
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"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
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"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
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"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
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"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
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"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
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"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
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"Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue, you pursue others because of the dreams they follow!"
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"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality."
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"Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical."
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"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
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"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."
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"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated."
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"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
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"Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
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"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
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"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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