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And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
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As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.
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As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Ask yourself, ''If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
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Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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