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Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

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If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

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There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

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Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

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A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

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