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 The best way to get praise is to die.  The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see. Courage in danger is half the battle. - Plautus A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues. Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence. Think much, speak little, and write less. The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards. To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself. Flops are a part of life's menu, and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. 0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity. 
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