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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Bright Live See Smile Yourself
When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.
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Acceptance Lose Worst Yourself
The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
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Afraid Decision Defeat Fear Forget Hard Work Way
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Afraid Best Care Job Small
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Ability Criticism Encouragement
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.
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Goodness Listening Persuation
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
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Chance Debate Listening Resistance Talk Understand
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Aspiration Attention Conversation Goodness Listening Person Yourself
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
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Break Face Live See Smile Sun Yourself
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Empathy Quick Wrong
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Apply Knowledge Power
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Listening Talk Time
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Lying Sleep Worry Yourself
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Conquer Discover Fear Quick
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
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Condition Control Happiness Listening Seek Thinking World Yourself
You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
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Age Beginning Time World Yourself

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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