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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

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I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

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Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

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May we each find inspiration from our desparation.

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Life is a short but distant journey inward to our soul.

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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We become what we do.

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When two marry, both are making the respectful commitment to put their spouse's needs before all others, including themselves.

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Situational dishonesty may produce a temporary sense of security but will inevitably lead to retrospective regret.

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It is much easier to tear down a sturdy fence than to build one.

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I am a part of all that I have met.

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