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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

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Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot

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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

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Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

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Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

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The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

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