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Random Short Quotations - 48
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George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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John W. Hanley
Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.
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Akhenaton
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.
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Napoleon Hill
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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Anatole France
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them
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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
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Stephen Jay Gould
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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Harry S Truman
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Ed Macauley
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
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Mary Catherine Bateson
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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