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A Culture Is As Rich And As Capable Of Surviving As It Has Imaginative Artists, Skilled Men Of Science, A High Ethic Level, Workable Government, Land And Natural Resources, In About That Order Of Importance.

You Make New Year's Resolutions. And You Make Them Into The Teeth Of Old Resolutions Which Were Different. Then You Don't Keep Your New Resolutions And You Tell Yourself You Are Weak-willed. You Aren't Weak-willed, You Are Simply Obeying Yourself As Of Yesterday.

A Venezuelan Dictator Once Decided To Stop Leprosy. He Saw That Most Lepers In His Country Were Also Beggars. By The Simple Expedient Of Collecting And Destroying All The Beggars In Venezuela An End Was Put To Leprosy In That Country.

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If At This Moment You Simply Made Up Your Minds That You Were Handsome, Beautiful, Strong, Dangerous, Powerful, That You Knew Everything There Was To Know, You Were Totally Capable In Any Job That You Undertook Or Any Sport You Undertook-if You Really Believed That, And You Can Believe It, Some Of Your Faces Would Change Physically Before My Eyes.