"The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow."
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"You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it."
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's."
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"I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks."
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"There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized."
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"Never give in, never give in, never give in."
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"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
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"America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."
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"Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate."
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"As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there."
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
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"I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve."
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"They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver."
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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
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"We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer."
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"Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are."
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"Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness."
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"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
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"We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground."
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