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- It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
- Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
- Richard Rybolt
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing
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