"We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without."
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"Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying."
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"It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development."
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"Nothing is stronger than habit."
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"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
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"Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure."
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"To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death."
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"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship."
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"Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit."
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"If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own."
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"Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty."
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"The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life."
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"I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature."
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"If there were no God, he would have to be invented."
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"The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy."
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"The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember."
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"We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength."
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"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship."
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