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- Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
- Anonymous
- Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
- Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales
- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
- There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
- Frank Tyger
- Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
- Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
- Be contented when you have got all you want.
- Holbrook Jackson
- If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
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