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Wisdom from Assam and the world

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"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."
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"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody."
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
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"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
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"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
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"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."
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"There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them."
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."
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"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise."
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"To fly, we have to have resistance."
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"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
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"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."
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"Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
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"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
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"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself."
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"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement."
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship."
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
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"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."
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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."
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"If you want to go east, don't go west."
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