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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
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Personal Development
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
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Personal Development
"Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic."
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Personal Development
"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."
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"I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well."
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"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
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"I try to give positive energy in all my shows."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness
"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
Humor
"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
Society
"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."
Writing
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
Wisdom
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Happiness
"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."
Writing
"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed - because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."
Reflection
"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."
Writing
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