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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.
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Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: 'Elitism!' And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. 'Standing out' is undemocratic.
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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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Harry Dresden: I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.
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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!
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All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.
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For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
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Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.
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Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.
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Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
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Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
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Worte sind Taten.
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It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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I saw myself as Joan of Arc.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.
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Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.
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After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
