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 My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.  The greatest American superstition is belief in facts. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. None think the great unhappy, but the great. I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. Of all calamities this is the greatest. Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful, it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good, it's still all right. - Max Wall Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. - Plautus He gives twice who gives quickly. Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. 
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