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No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.: Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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An idea is salvation by imagination.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.: Jewish Proverb
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.: Henry C. Link
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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
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Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)