"Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come."
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"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
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"When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die."
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"One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
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"That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else."
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"If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do."
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"Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor."
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"Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves."
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"Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there."
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"The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader."
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"To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away."
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"It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have."
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"A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)"
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"Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?"
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"A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated."
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"Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God.""
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"I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are."
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"Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition."
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"You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won't say. It's like Donald Trump."
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"Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out."
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