The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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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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    Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

    The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

    The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

    Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

    Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

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