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#1

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

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#2

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

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#3

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: corpse, incarnation, mind-over-body, soul

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#4

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

tags: anxiety, mankind

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#5

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
― Epictetus

tags: control, freedom, goal, happiness, life, philosophy

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#6

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
― Malcolm X

tags: 1965, anger

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#7

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X

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#8

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X

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#9

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: education, future

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#10

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

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#11

“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you. Most men would rather please than admire you; they seek less to be instructed, and even to be amused, than to be praised and applauded.”
― Jean de La Bruyère

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#12

“Don’t think that writing your character as an untainted paragon of virtue will make them likeable—actually the opposite is true. People are attracted to each other’s rough edges. Your readers will relate more with your hero if they show issues that taint their character.”
― Jonathan Baldie, The 24 Laws of Storytelling: A Practical Handbook for Great Storytellers

tags: character, characters, flaws, storytelling

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#13

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#14

“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

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#15

“So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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#16

“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#17

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading

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#18

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#19

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#20

“I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.”
― Robert Michaels MD - 2007 - Graduation Speaker

tags: advice, kindness, leadership, love, management, people, respect, success

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#21

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: example, leadership, morality, right, righteousness

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#22

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

tags: accomplishments, african-american-authors, african-authors, agu-jaachynam-n-e, amazom, anyaele-sam-chiyson, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiysonovelty-bookclub, elections, entrepreneurship, fame, forbes, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, immortality, improvement, inspiration, international-authors, intimacy, it-is-time-to-get-very-rich, jaachynma, leadership, life, money, niche, nigerian-authors, president, reading, relationship, revolution, richest, risk-it, security, self-help, success, successful-living, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper, the-sagacity-of-sage, wealth

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#23

“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

tags: leadership

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#24

“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: athletics, baseball, basketball, bipartisan, chaos, childish, competition, conflict, conservative, country, democrat, division, economy, entertainment, fingerpointing, football, games, liberal, nation, parties, partisan, peace, politicians, politics, pride, productivity, republican, separation, soccer, solidarity, sport, triviality, unification, unity, vanity, war

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#25

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: division, unity

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#26

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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#27

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
― Winston Churchill, The River War

tags: africa, agriculture, ancient-rome, apathy, brave, central-africa, civilization, commerce, concubine, curse, death, development, dignity, europe, faith-of-islam, fanatical, grace, hydrophobia, influence, insecurity, islam, militant, militant-faith, mohammed, mohammedan, mohammedanism, muslims, paralysis, power, property, proselytizing, religious-fanaticism, retrograde, rome, science, sharia-law, slavery, the-prophet

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#28

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry

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#29

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.”
― Karl Marx, Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003. Die Deutsche Ideologie: Artikel, Druckvorlagen, Entwürfe, Reinschriftenfragmente und Notizen zu "I. Feuerbach" und "II. Sankt Bruno"

tags: christian-myths, media, myth, newspaper, printing-press, roman-empire

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#30

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity

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