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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
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Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
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Life is a first draft... with no rewrite.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
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Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
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So far as a person thinks; they are free.
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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
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