"Every man contemplates an angel in his future self."
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"The engineers of the future will be poets."
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"I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am"
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"God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other."
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"If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig."
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"You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics."
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"Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times."
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"Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley."
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"If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity."
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"Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God."
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"The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration."
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"This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman)."
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"Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria."
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"I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother."
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"Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses."
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"I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy."
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"Be the chief but never the lord."
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"Building a better you is the first step to building a better America."
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