"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
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"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
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"Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive."
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"In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go."
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"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."
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"When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together."
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"Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there."
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"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."
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"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
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"The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
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"Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you."
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"We are the women men warned us about."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner."
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"Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."
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"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really."
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"I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."
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"An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?"
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"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
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"Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there."
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