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• Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.
• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
  -- Harper Lee...
• You can get everything in life you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want.
• When you can't get what you want, cry -- Jane Fonda
• When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
  -- Josiah Quincy...
• Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan Stanford
• What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for?
  Work for yourself! -- Irving Berlin (advice to young songwriter George Gershwin)...
• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. -- Vernon Howard
• You can't always get what you want.