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Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.

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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don’t realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness that he can become happy.

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Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

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Anything great is long in making.

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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

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