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 Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.  Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. We only think when we are confronted with a problem. I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it. Her figure is harder to ignore than a ringing telephone. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier. The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. 0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin. You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up! If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. The world belongs to the energetic. Time gives good advice. When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter," And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said. Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. 
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