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Americans are optimists. They hope they’ll be wealthy someday – and they’re positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Bernard Williams

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
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Becoming Secret Valleys
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
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Ideas Inspiration Son
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody’s weakness.
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Growth Time Weakness
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
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Business Disappointment Regret
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.
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Action Belief Illusion
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
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Extravagance Spirit Thinking
Few things move as quietly as the future.
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Life Moving Queletly
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
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Harder Less Like Tranquility
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
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Day Good Hope Morning
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
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Dog Happiness Nature
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
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Humor Stranger World
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.
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Average Discover Father Men
Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.
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Advice Junk Mail
People who say, ‘Let the chips fall where they may,’ usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
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Chip Fall May People
Laziness has many disguises. Soon “winter doldrums” will become “spring fever.”
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Fever Spring Winter
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
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April Lord Spring

Americans are optimists. They hope they’ll be wealthy someday – and they’re positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

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