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"The amount of money you make ethically is directly proportionate to the value you add in others people's life."

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth."

"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."

"Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world."
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"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."

"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."

"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

"And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!"

"There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible-magic to make the sanest man go mad."
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