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«The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.»
«When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.»
«Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!»
«The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.»
«The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.»
«War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.»

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