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 Everyone lives by selling something.  My motto: sans limites. The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no perfection in humanity. He that is not in the war is not out of danger. I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire Acting is happy agony. I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach, in their own way. It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The happy people are those who are producing something. All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's." 
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