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"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."
"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."
"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
"You only need enough experience to master the art."
"The writer identifies the thought behind every written word."
"Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy."
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