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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Believe Dream Good Inspiration One Liner Positive Success Thinking
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Feeling Bad Loose Low Needs Sad Territory Unhappy Worst
Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember
And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Absurdity Awesome Better Die Life Live Share
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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Chaos Desire Emerge Giving Patterns Positive Try
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Adult Certain Illegal Individual Minorities Permission Prohibited
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Dangerous Few Permission Prohibited Sleepwaker World
Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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Church Comercial Culture Expression Music Rocks Stream Trend

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