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I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
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The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
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Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
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There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.
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When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
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When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
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When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
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Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
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Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
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Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
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Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.
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Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
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A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
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All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.
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Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
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You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
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It's simple, it's not that simple or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
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