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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.

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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Bad Feeling Job Myself Quite Simplicity Worth
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
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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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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