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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent....
• The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
  -- Claude le Petite...
• Is the world full of smart people pretending or imbeciles who mean it?
• The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. -- Will Foley
• We are not alone.
• We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
  -- Henrik Ibsen, "An Enemy of the People", 1882...
• We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. -- Ani Difranco, Letter to a Joh