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America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.


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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.



Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.



Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.



Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs



The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.



Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.



All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.



Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.



The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace



We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.





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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!



The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.



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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.



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For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.



Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.



What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.



Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.

Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.




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