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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: \
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent.
 Heraclitus

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.
 Heraclitus
All is flux; nothing stays still.
 Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.
 Heraclitus
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
 Heraclitus
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
 Heraclitus