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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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