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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
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