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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
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"Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!"

"Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away."

"Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve."

"Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth."

"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."

"Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums."

"The victor belongs to the spoils."
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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
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