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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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