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 I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.  In my end is my beginning. Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it? I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. Golf is a good walk spoiled. It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat. The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the "Survival of the fittest", is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous. You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added. I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them. True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient. - Seneca To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble. The successful man is one who had the chance and took it. It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. 
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