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 Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.  Victory - a matter of staying power. Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose you die a little. Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild. Life is only this place, this time, and these people right here and now. The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Bible Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia. If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up. The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. When fate's got it in for you, there's no limit to what you may have to put up with. Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school. 
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