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Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; th... 
Guard your thoughts.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader... 
I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... 
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to impr... 
Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. 
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! 
. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behi... 
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its nati... 
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking rev... 
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... 
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So,... 
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of... 
Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! 
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[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to t... 
Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha... 
As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rat... 
And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you ca... 
I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi... 
Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to cr... 
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor j... 
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the... 
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor ... 
I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures ... 
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figur... 
Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our exist... 
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now i... 
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and... 
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow hor... 
I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPho... 
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among u... 
I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,... 
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It dire... 
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It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason, it's just that...I just think that some thi... 
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one&... 
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones wh... 
About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I... 
Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gav... 
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's... 
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a fo... 
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are th... 
Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time fo... 
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfil... 
Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks. 
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ... 
Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!... 
I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i... 
Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and ... 
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest fe... 
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! 
Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move... 
You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go ba... 
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unex... 
Things are being simplified a lot for us lately. I think people are hungry for something that shows ... 
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all 
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it... 
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate ... 
Claire is actually younger in life than the role calls for, but her emotional knowledge continued to... 
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are... 
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its v... 
Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage ... 
Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But thos... 
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. 
The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I t... 
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby... 
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious y... 
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. 
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