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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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