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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
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When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interferring with those who are in possession of something.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
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While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Source: Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy -
Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. ''I can t'' often means ''I won t.'' You can change ''I won t'' to ''I will'' with willpower.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
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