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Quotes by Leo Calvin Rosten

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "Happy". I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you have lived at all."

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment-and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God or luck or fate bestowed upon them.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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Happiness, to me, lies in stretching, to the farthest boundaries of which we are capable, the resources of the mind and heart.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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Any man that hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 - 1997)
 
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