"I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change"
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"I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin."
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"Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob."
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"There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much."
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"I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live."
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"Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war."
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"If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable."
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"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return."
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"Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you."
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"Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change."
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"There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither."
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"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
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"We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them."
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"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"
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"I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way"
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"Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them."
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"You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift."
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"Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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"Because, if you ever been in the state pennitentary, you understand if you're not in something, then you stay out of it, you know and that's how I do.That's a easy way to stay out of it!"
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