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Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
People fail forward to success.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Never eat more than you can lift.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
People fail forward to success.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Early cultures, which viewed education as a system of absorbing a well-defined subject matter, offered little opportunity for speculation.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
I didn't even breathe.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
No.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

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