"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining."
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"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
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"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."
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"The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision."
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"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
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"The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period."
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"Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute."
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"Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country."
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"I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason."
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"Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?"
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"Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease."
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"Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular."
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"As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration."
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"I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics."
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"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."
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"But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word"
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"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."
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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
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"When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it."
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"A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling."
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