Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. — Eddie Rickenbacker

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It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

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It always seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela

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My joke used to be about my father and Peter Boyle: that anything you see Peter Boyle do on TV, my father has done in real life without pants on. - Ray Romano

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You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... ― Henry David Thoreau

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We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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The hardest thing about writing is writing.

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