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The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Motivational Speaker
Psychologist
Teacher
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Maryville
Missouri
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
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Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.
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