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Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

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When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
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The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
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Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
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Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.
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If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.
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Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.
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Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
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In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us.
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Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
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Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
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I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
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What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
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If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.
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Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
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Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.
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