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The advice is optimistic, sound and straight-forward: "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

The clever scribe is Mark Ernsberger, the manager of Terry Sash & Door Co., Tarzana, Ca.

Ernsberger, along with countless other business people. nationwide, uses his company's sign to convey words of inspiration to all those who pass his business. While cynics dismiss such messages as yet another marketing ploy, others view them as harmless fun.

"You see so many mundane signs around town," Ernsberger said. "Our intent is to draw attention and get people chuckling."

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