"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
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"You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred"
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"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
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"This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty."
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"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."
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"That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration."
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"Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not."
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"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."
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"The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine."
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"Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people."
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"Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore."
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"Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life."
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"We become what we habitually contemplate"
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me."
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"Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms."
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"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."
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"I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself."
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"Few people have the imagination for reality."
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"I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it."
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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