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Quotes by Author
"You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness."
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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
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"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them."
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"Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance."
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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"The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand hours. The world gives way to the man who knows where he is going."
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"We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness."
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"The purest form of thanksgiving unto God is a reflected in our knowledge and understanding about who He is, not what we receive from Him! Thanksgiving is a continuous celebration of God's awesome nature and Supreme Being!"
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"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law."
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"We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first."
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"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
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"A normal fighter in the street fights in a different way than a disciplined boxer, but a boxer is from the other world, it's a big difference. A boxer can throw a six-inch punch. A six-inch punch can knock you clean down. I'm very wary of those boxers, I can tell you. If you get a boxer that can street fight and he mixes it together then it makes a lethal combination! I mixed boxing and street fighting in to a cocktail and when I knocked them down I kept them down by use of the boot."
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
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"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
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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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"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
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"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
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"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
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"Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality."
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"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."
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"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
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"For a thinking man, the main thing is to understand who he is within."
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"We must be true ambassadors of Christ on the earth in order to be able to put an end to the plague of ignorance in our society."
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"Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity."
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"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."
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"Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don't try to learn it. — If lions could speak, we would not understand them. — says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ['Life was a misunderstanding']"
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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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"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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"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
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"Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form."
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"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
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"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren t whores, just mine."
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"You have grace to live your dreams."
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"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
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"Do not take to heart any ill-action."
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"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."
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