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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Saint Augustine

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson

Great First Self-Confidence Requisite

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Vaclav Havel

Life Hope Soil First Sense Doubt Birth Find Hopelessness Gives Could Never Absurdity New Perhaps Most Without Very Human Experiencing Certainties Moment Nourishes Profound

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite. Viggo Mortensen

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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James

Acceptance First Consequences Willing Misfortune Step Overcoming First Step Any Happened

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. George Bernard Shaw

Progress Censorship First Removal Condition

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. Maya Angelou

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus

Truth First Absurd Concept Essential

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley

Education Worth Discipline Mind First Reading Must Something Chatter Feed Read Refrain Refuse Canned While Newspaper Therefore Resolutely

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis de Tocqueville

Innovation Men Trouble First Revolution Every Danger Fearing Point Absolutely Advance Step Toward New Reach Look First Step May Move Refuse Where Cannot Social Theory Help

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Baruch Spinoza

First Wish Be The First More Taken None Proud Than Flattery Who

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore

Day You Yourself First Laugh Real Up Grow Grow Up

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something. Eugene H. Peterson

Bible People Language First Lose Nothing Difficult Everything Way Something Written Spoken Academic Most Make Terribly Least Were Oral Common Common Language Illiterate Technical Street Receive

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen

Man First Principles Am Times Fixed Which Flexible

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism Property Selfish Socialism Matter Free First Consideration Anathema Distribution Equal Private Contract Private Property Left May Interest Income Play Cardinal Present Basis

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. Groucho Marx

Life Time Myself Soul Wonderful Words Mind First Living Diminution Neither Record Born Concerning First Thing Loses Nor Began Itself The First Thing Which Eternity Depths Everlasting Thing Bring

Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place. J. Michael Straczynski

You Too Late Never Too Late Passion Will Rest First Become Too Late Possible Follow Never Attend First Place Always Go Go For It Itself Anybody Wanted Place Turn Your

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. Jimi Hendrix

You Change Together World First Change The World Head Get Order Your

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