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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

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