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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.


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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.



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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.



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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.



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Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.



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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.



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What we love to do we find time to do.



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Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.



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The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.



A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.





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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.



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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.



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I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.



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