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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.
—African proverb
For all of its faults (capitalism), it gives most hardworking people a chance to
improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the
privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter
or get busy.
—Bill O’Reilly, television host, author, journalist, and a political commentator
He who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.
—Machiavelli, Italian Renaissance political philosopher
All my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.
—Ted Turner, founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting
Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for
broke.
—Eliot Wigginton, oral historian, folklorist, writer, and educator
