"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."
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"One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun."
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
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"The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself."
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"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."
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"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."
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"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
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"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
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"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
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"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
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"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
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"When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction."
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"All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me."
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"Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words."
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"If we own the story then we can write the ending."
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"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
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"In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract."
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"What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven."
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