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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

—Evelyn Waugh

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

—Coco Chanel

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

—Anne Rice

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

—Unknown

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

—Mark Twain

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

—Erica Jong

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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

—Brendan Francis

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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

—Benjamin Franklin

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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

—Baltasar Gracián

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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

—Evan Esar

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

—William Shakespeare

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

—Victor Cousin

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