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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure…
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with…
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been…
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or…
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
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Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is…
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The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself-…
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up…
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves…
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Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even…
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People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson…
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My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole…
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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we…
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but…
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An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must all hang…
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This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,…
— Thomas Paine
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas…
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some…
— Walter Isaacson
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?
— Kanye West
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Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you…
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