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Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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