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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."

"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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