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- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Originality is merely an illusion.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
- Leo Durocher (1906 - 1991)
- Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
- No earthly teacher is flawless. If you limit yourself to learning according to the exact mindset of the teacher, you will also inherit his flaws.
- Joseph J. Dewey, The Teacher-Student Relationship
- In the true student-teacher relationship authority is only recognized because it is earned.
- Joseph J. Dewey, The Teacher-Student Relationship http://www.josephjdewey.com/weblog/article.php?num=1
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Charles Farquhar (1678 - 1707), "Wycherly: Love in a Wood", act iii. sc. 3
- It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
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