It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

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He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

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