"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
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"For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing."
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"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good."
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"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
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"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
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"Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can."
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"Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood."
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"The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free."
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"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."
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"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."
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"I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations."
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"A jug fills drop by drop."
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"I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind."
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"Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly."
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"I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live."
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"A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully."
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"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
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"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."
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"Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right."
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"Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test."
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