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A person hears only what they understand.
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Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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: One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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