That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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99% of failures come from people who make excuses. ― George Washington

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You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ― Paulo Coelho

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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. — Lucille Ball

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I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

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People readily believe what they want to believe.

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Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

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