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faith. Believe in yourself. Believe in the world. Believe in the Eternal Justice. If you do, the stars will fight for you. And if you don't believe, if you complain and get it into your head that this world is down on you, why, it will come down on you and smash you, and you'll get what you believed in. Everybody does.
Be persistent. Fortune's a fickle jade. If she does not say yes the first five times
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you ask her, ask her twenty-five times. AfÂter a while she will favor you, for she loves importunity.
Get the luck idea out of your head. There is such a thing as luck. But that is not what you are looking for. What you want is success. And there's no luck about that. It's just as certain as the corn crop to those who know how to raise it.
Don't expect anything of anybody but yourself.
10. And keep cheerful. It's all in a life-time. Meanwhile there are doughnuts and coffee. And the pleasant sun is shining. I suspect you are missing a lot of happiness because you don't know it when you see it.
Do you remember what Lincoln said?
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