"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."

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"If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living."

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"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."

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"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."

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"Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality."

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"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."

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"All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do."

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"We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities."

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"A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected."

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"It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable."

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