The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate someone else's type of thinking.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do just for practice.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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    Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

    We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

    We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

    It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

    It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

    When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

    When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

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