"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful."
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
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"My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life."
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"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
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"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
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"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
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"My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs"
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"Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets."
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"What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives."
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"Compassion is the radicalism of our time."
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"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
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"I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz."
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"There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man."
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"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
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"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."
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"Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you."
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"Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind."
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