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Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success. – John D. MacDonald

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It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. – Howard Hughes

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