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 To be somebody you must last.  It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die. Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us. The flag of our Union forever! Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile. Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. I dress for women - and I undress for men. They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. I think, therefore I am. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. The fox changes his skin but not his habits. Don't agonize. Organize. What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all. For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. 
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