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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
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If you work well, the country will be in good order, and it will be a blessing to the country. The country needs good care.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
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If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
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If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
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If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
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If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
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If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
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