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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
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