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There Is A Subtle Danger In A Man Thinking That He Is "fixed" For Life. It Indicates That The Next Jolt Of The Wheel Of Progress Is Going To Fling Him Off.

People See Successes That Men Have Made And Somehow They Appear To Be Easy. But That Is A World Away From The Facts. It Is Failure That Is Easy. Success Is Always Hard. A Man Can Fail Easily; He Can Succeed Only By Paying Out All That He Has And Is.

One Needs To Be Successful In The Conventional Way To Learn Just How Far Away From Success It May Be.

Records Can Be Destroyed If They Do Not Suit The Prejudices Of Ruling Cliques, Lost If They Become Incomprehensible, Distorted If A Copyist Wishes To Impose A New Meaning Upon Them, Misunderstood If We Lack The Information To Interpret Them. The Past Is Like A Huge Library, Mostly Fiction.

There Are Two Fools In This World. One Is The Millionaire Who Thinks That By Hoarding Money He Can Somehow Accumulate Real Power, And The Other Is The Penniless Reformer Who Thinks That If Only He Can Take The Money From One Class And Give It To Another, All The World's Ills Will Be Cured.