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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

—Henry Ford

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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

—Abraham Cahan

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

—John Wayne

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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

—Robert W. Sarnoff

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A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

—Arnold H. Glasow

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

—Bertrand Russell

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"There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

—Laurence J. Peter

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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

—E.L. Doctorow

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Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal in life is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey — delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally with beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank God for letting you have the ride.

—Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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No group or class should be freed from doing the toil of the culture. One of our current problems is that there are too many people who simply have no idea how much unpleasant, tedious, and repetitive work is required to support their "high-level" activities, and how ineffective they would be without the effort of those they all too often disdain.

—Robert Theobold

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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

—Tennessee Williams

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