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Marechal Ferdinand Foch
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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Guy
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
Every crowd has a silver lining.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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Harold Wilson
A week is a long time in politics.
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Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.
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John Heisman
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
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Detronius Arbiter
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
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Charles Horton Cooley
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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General Omar Nelson Bradley
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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