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- Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
- Chuck Norris (1940 - )
- There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
- Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
- Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
- Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
- A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
- Dan Seligman, in 'Forbes Magazine'
- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
- We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
- Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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