"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities."
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"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."
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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
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"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."
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"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
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"It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."
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"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
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"Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both."
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"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
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"The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism."
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"You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great."
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think."
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"Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values."
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"It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person."
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"I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution."
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"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."
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"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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