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- The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
- Japanese Proverb
- You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
- C. Kent Wright
- Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
- James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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