"The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world."
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"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
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"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
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"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses."
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"What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont."
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"Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one."
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"You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy."
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"Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it."
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"One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?""
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come."
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"Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off."
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"What does an atheist scream when they come?"
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"Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means."
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"Nature does nothing in vain."
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"The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form."
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"Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly."
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"It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet."
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"...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless."
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"Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times."
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"Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections."
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