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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Joseph Heller

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Country Crazy Executive Scare
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

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