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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. ↗

— David Mamet

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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

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So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught. ↗

— Method Man

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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. ↗

— David Mamet

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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. ↗

— David Mamet

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Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. ↗

— David Mamet

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Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. ↗

— David Mamet

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