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- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
- Unknown
- What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
- Robert Kennedy
- The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
- Srully Blotnick
- Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
- James Harvey Robinson
- Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
- The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous
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