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- The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
- When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to Le Comte d'Argental, August 28, 1760
- Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
- We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
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