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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."

"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."

"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."

"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."

"Every fiction has its base in fact."

"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"As soon as I can find the courage to put my plans to action, I will turn from being a "maybe man into someone whose future success lies completely in his own hands."

"Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?"

"You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth."

"I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help."

"We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before " to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions."

"I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice."

"In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party."
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