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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
[ Will ]
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
[ Media ]
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
[ Talent ]
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
[ Talent ]
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
[ Quotations ]
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
[ Quotations ]
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A person hears only what they understand.
[ Listening ]
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
[ Listening ]
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
[ Persuasion ]
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
[ Persuasion ]
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
[ Persuasion ]
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
[ Persuasion ]
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
[ Doubt ]
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
[ Doubt ]
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
[ Doubt ]
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