The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate someone else's type of thinking.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do just for practice.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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    The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

    The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

    Interest does not tie nations together, it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding

    Interest does not tie nations together, it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

    Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field

    Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field

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