Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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