"You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face."
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"The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things."
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"We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity."
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"Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it."
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"Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough."
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"If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals."
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"Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do."
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"One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable."
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"When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone."
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"To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for."
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"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."
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"Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world."
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"To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give."
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"Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind."
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"It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts."
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"If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it."
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"Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion."
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"There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution."
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"It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."
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"To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation."
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