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 My closest relation is myself. - Terence  The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. The company makes the feast. Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important. How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! Make yourself indispensable and you'll be moved up. Act as if you're indispensable and you'll be moved out. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. Tis no shame to follow the better precedent. We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true. You're only a dog, old fellow; a dog, and you've had your day; But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Out of the strain of the doing, Into the peace of the done. A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear. The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. 
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