No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed............................................
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed............................................
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life,work and love.
The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind........................................
They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth...........................
They break, chop, and impoverish it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Work is the true elixir of life...................................
The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work..........................................
Never believe that you are perfect..........................
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins."
Sir Theodore Martin, Said at reaching the age of 92
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"When one of your dreams come true, ...............................................
you begin to look at the others more carefully."
Anon.
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live............................................
.[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein, in a letter to Otto Juliusburger
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I used to dread getting older ............................................
because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do,.....................
but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Nancy Astor, In "Hammer and Tongues," by Brown and O'Connor, 1986
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The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977
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You must stick to your convictions................................................. ...
but be ready to abandon your assumptions
Denis Waitley
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be......................................
Moderation in temper is always a virtue;..............................................
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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"The harder somebody argues....
The more likely they are wrong...
Anonomus
If oppurtunity doesn't knock,..............................................
build a door.
Milton Berle
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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside..........................................
Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
Karl Kraus
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"A real leader faces the music,.................................................
even when he doesn't like the tune."
Anon.
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights...................................
Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
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The man who wins is the average man,
Not built on any particular plan;
Not blessed with any particular luck –
Just steady and earnest and full of pluck.
The man who wins is the man who works,
Conrad Hilton, from autobiography "Be My Guest", 1957
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Who neither labor nor trouble shirks;
Who uses his hands, his head, his eyes-
The man who wins is the man who tries.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper...............................................
when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut!:finger:
Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? ..........................................
Because there is nowhere else to look.
James Burke
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We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving................................
Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. ......................................
You get more stuffing.
George Carlin
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Any new venture goes through the following stages:.........................................
Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent..............................................
and decoration of those who did nothing.
Anon.
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second............................................
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. .....................................
That's relativity."
-Albert Einstein, On relativity
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No Act of Kindness, no matter how small,................................
is ever wasted.
Aesop
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant.................................................... ..
Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, introduction, 1987
"We think too small..........................................
Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well........................................
If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”
Mao Tse Tung
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