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- Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
- Unknown
- A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
- Richard Armour
- With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
- Chinese proverb
- The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
- Philip Caldwell
- From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
- Unknown
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