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- Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
- Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Michael Pritchard
- Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
- The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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