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" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. "

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" I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. "

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" The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. "

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" Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. "

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" I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him. "

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" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

" If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. "

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" Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain. "

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" I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know. "

" As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster. "

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" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "

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" It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. "

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" Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. "

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" You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. "

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" I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. "