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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."
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"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."

"High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people's expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a 'go-getting personality' while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments."

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."

"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."
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"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power."

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

"The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees."

"Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself."

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."

"I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people."
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