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“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. ”
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“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
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“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”
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“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
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“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”
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