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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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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

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All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

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