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“I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.”
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“The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.”
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“My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.”
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“Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.”
Source : Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). “Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation”, Meriwether Publishing
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“The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.”
Source : "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Williamsburg, Virginia, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995. 
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“I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.”
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“I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.”
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“Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.”
Source : John Balguy (1790). “Twenty-one sermons on the following subjects ... viz”, p.127
