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“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
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“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”
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“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
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“Buy land, they're not making it anymore”
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
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“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them”
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“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
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