"We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth."
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"In the next life you will be working with those attitudes that are now yours."
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"The ends do not justify the means"
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"Life is a buzzer box. Poke it."
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"For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action."
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"In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise."
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"It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true."
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"When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow."
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"The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done."
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"Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity."
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"If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!"
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"Expectations are the engines of our perceptions."
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"If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take."
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"If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved."
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"The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel."
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"Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals."
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"In a world of free, everyone can play."
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"The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth."
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"The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success."
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"It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there."
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