Napoleon Hill Quotes
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
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My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.
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First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
