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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
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We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.
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I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.
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The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.
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The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.
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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.
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Last week is the time you should have either bought or sold, depending on what you didn't do.
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People are know by the company they keep. Companies are known by the people they keep.
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When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it.
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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.
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Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are Play Ball!
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Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
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Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.