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If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
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To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
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Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.
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Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.
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Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.
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How to succeed? Try hard enough.
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Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
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How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.
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I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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