"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."
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"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."
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"I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country."
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"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good."
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"I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference."
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"When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb."
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"Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express."
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"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
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"I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself."
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"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines."
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"In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life."
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"All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble."
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"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."
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"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
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"Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not."
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"That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find."
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"Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves."
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"You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived."
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"There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now."
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"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve."
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