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It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

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Determined people working together can do anything.

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Beware the fury of a patient man.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

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We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

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