"Solitude is the place of purification."
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"Surround yourself with love, not friends."
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"A zebra does not change its spots."
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"Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation"
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"Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning."
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"Don't stumble over something behind you."
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"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
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"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."
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"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
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"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."
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"Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart."
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"Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem."
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"How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service."
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"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
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"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst."
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"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
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"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
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"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
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