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- What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
- If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
- I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
- America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
- Anthony Walton
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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