"He does not seek power - yet people follow him."
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"A good speaker does not stutter."
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"He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground."
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"Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature."
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"He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable."
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"He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop."
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"A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself."
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"The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed."
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"One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot."
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"It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside."
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"If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned."
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"It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here."
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"Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?"
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"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
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"I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects."
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"No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others."
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"Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way."
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"If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?"
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"Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?""
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"Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff."
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