"Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve."
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"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."
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"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
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"Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others."
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"The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself."
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"I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully."
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"Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom."
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"I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again."
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"Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds."
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"I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick."
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"Worship is a response to greatness. A man does not become a worshipper merely by saying, "Now I shall become a worshipper." That is impossible. That cannot be done. A man becomes a worshipper when he sees something great that calls forth his admiration or his worship. That is the only way worshippers are made. Worship answers to greatness."
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"Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual."
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"Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith."
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"The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly."
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"The Holy Spirit never convicts (Christians) of your sins. He never comes to point out your faults…. It does not take a revelation from the Holy Spirit to see that you have failed. However, when you know that you’ve failed what you do need is for the Holy Spirit to convict you of your righteousness."
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"If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them."
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"Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force."
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"There is no life that does not contribute to history."
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"Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God."
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"I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit."
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