Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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