"With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now"
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"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough."
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"You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar."
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"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."
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"Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning."
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"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it."
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"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately."
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"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."
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"Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have."
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"Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound."
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"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."
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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
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"Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life"
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"...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious."
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"Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it."
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"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."
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"Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you."
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"The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us."
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"Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism."
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"We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them."
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