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Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

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Successful people breed success.

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

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There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.

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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

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The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

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