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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
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A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) -
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
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A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
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