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"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."

"Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?"

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."

"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
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