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- Imagination rules the world.
- Napoleon I
- There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon I
- There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
- Jean de LaBruyere
- A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
- Peter Mere Latham
- We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
- There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
- Schiller
- Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
- Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
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