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"Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare."

"You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them."

"Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other."

"As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not."

"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."

"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."

"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
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"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."

"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."

"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."

"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
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