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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
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