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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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