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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
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Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
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Michael Hanson
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
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David Letterman
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
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John Gall
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
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Gene Fowler
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
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Montesquieu
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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John Stuart Mill
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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Carlos Castaneda
It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
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Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Bruce Lee
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
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