"This above all; to thine own self be true."
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"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress."
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
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"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
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"Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
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"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."
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"The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears."
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"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
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"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
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"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
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"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."
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"The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching."
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"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."
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"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."
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"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
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"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
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"Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success."
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