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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."

"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."

"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."

"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."

"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
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