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 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.  Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong." Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself. All is fair in love and war. The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them. Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth. If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe 
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