"If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success."
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"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."
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"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God."
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"I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes."
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"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
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"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
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"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
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"Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?"
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"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
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"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
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"A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity."
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
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"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
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"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
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