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“If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.”
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“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Source : Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.
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“I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.”
Source : "Kristen Schaal: The toast of American comedy" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010. 
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“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.”
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“I believe in cooperating for the common good”
Source : CNN profile, www.cnn.com. March 3, 1997.
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“Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.”
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“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”
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“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.”
