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 Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.  Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well. He who can lick can bite. Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after generation. The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!' Terminological inexactitude What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team. Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. My country ... gave me schooling, independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant. From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. 0 God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me. The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and of humanity. I One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality-a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow. I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver. Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. 
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