"There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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"Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know."
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"Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask."
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"One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old."
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"You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing."
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"I still have this teddy bear I've had since I was three...and all my boxes, all kinds of boxes. I just won't give them up. It's like if I give them up, I've given in to being a movie star."
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"Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed."
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"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."
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"I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen."
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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
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"There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous."
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"Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do."
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"The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can."
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"If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give."
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"In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it."
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"You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it."
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"Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?"
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"Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one."
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"Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked."
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"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."
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