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Harry S Truman
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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A. P. Gouthey
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
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Frederick Langbridge
Two men look out through the same bars One sees the mud and one the stars.
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Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.
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W. Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Jacob Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
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Nathaniel Emmons
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
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Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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William Wordsworth
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
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Henry David Thoreau
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle
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