I am a showman by profession. . . and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. - P. T. Barnum

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Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession. . . and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

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The noblest art is that of making others happy

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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

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There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.

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Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

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Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

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No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

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Diane Ravitch

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

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Anjem Choudary

Hitler was obviously a dictator. And he was Christian. And I think that he persecuted the Jews, there's no doubt about that. And he did that for nationalistic reasons, which would be prohibited in Islam.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

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