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 Success is dependent on effort.  One more such victory and we are undone. - Pyrrhus Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers? What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. - Voltaire At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And, above all, accept these things. A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him. Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them. In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers anybody else to rail at me. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian. I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ... Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back. - Voltaire 
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