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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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