"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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"I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable."
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"My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands."
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"To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content."
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"To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation."
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"'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction."
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"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves."
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"Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise."
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"The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered."
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"For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."
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"I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means."
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"The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race."
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"Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for."
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"... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense."
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest."
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"I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you."
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"A high income job, a big house, nice cars, and lavish vacations don't mean you are rich, in fact it could mean exactly opposite"
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"Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master."
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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
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"Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few."
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