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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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