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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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Rise above principle and do what's right.

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We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

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Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 1st, 1923

Died: December 12th, 1999

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