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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come not, when...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come not, when...

Come not, when I am dead,
To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,
To trample round my fallen head,
And vex...

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Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with...

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John Steinbeck: Ideas are like...

John Steinbeck: Ideas are like...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence to fight...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence to fight...

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the...

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Sonia Johnson: It's only when...

Sonia Johnson: It's only when...

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary . ....

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Yogi Berra: You can't think...

Yogi Berra: You can't think...

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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The sciences and...

The sciences and...

The sciences and arts are not cast in a mold, but formed and shaped little by little, by repeated handling and...

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For all his...

For all his...

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can...

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Althea Gibson: I always wanted...

Althea Gibson: I always wanted...

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along...

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Talent is like...

Talent is like...

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep...

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Seek always for...

Seek always for...

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...

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To act wisely...

To act wisely...

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the...

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He managed to...

He managed to...

He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano. [about Michael Dukakis's acceptance...

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Sweat is the...

Sweat is the...

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Source: On CBS-TV, 21 Jul 1973.
--...

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Byrne's Law: In...

Byrne's Law: In...

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect...

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Historically and politically,...

Historically and politically,...

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. . . . The bourgeois and proletariat...

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Pleasure is continually...

Pleasure is continually...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

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Not a shred...

Not a shred...

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Source:...

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The suburbs were...

The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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Jack Johnson: The possession of...

Jack Johnson: The possession of...

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does...

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