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 The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.  Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected, that is essential.' At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. The first years of man must make provision for the last. A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath." Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London. Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned. - Bob Hope There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone. Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. - Ty Cobb If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off. One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time. The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear! We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration. 
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