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I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.

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Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

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Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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