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"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."
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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
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"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
Appreciation
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
Dying
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
Creativity
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
Time
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."
Art
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives."
People
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
Education
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."
Life
"Speech is civilization itself."
Civilization
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
Democracy
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