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Orison Swett Marden: It is like...

Orison Swett Marden: It is like...

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

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Albert Pike: Doubt [is] the...

Albert Pike: Doubt [is] the...

Doubt [is] the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery. The faculty of doubting and questioning . . ....

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Etty Hillesum: One must also...

Etty Hillesum: One must also...

One must also accept that one has uncreative moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments...

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Etty Hillesum: I do believe...

Etty Hillesum: I do believe...

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's...

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Northrop Frye: The most technologically...

Northrop Frye: The most technologically...

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

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Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet...

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Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...

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Dr Seuss: I meant what...

Dr Seuss: I meant what...

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful, one hundred...

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James B Conant: Whether a man...

James B Conant: Whether a man...

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or...

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George S Patton: I don't measure...

George S Patton: I don't measure...

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits...

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Norman Schwarzkopf: Do what is...

Norman Schwarzkopf: Do what is...

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look...

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Karl von Clausewitz: Pursue one great...

Karl von Clausewitz: Pursue one great...

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Source: In The...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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Eudora Welty: It had been...

Eudora Welty: It had been...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were...

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Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at...

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Jane Austen: It was not...

Jane Austen: It was not...

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...

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Richard Bach: An idea is...

Richard Bach: An idea is...

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for...

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