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"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."

"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."

"So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games."

"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."

"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has."

"We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things."
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