"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

Bakunin, Mikhail on destructiveness
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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Berle, Milton on opportunity
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"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Armstrong, Neil on dream
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"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

Bryant, Bear on winners and winning
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"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed."

Howard, Curly on perseverance
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"Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities."

Marden, Orison Swett on action   

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

Edwards, Tryon on self-improvement
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"The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble."

Cass, Eli on humility
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"In a way, this diversity is very exciting, but one has at some point to ask: are these real beginnings, or so many false starts?"

Mitchell, Juliet on diversity   

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past."

Welch, John on past   

"Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on planning   

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."

Lippmann, Walter on mistakes   

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"Reject hatred without hating."

Baker Eddy, Mary on hatred
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"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on fun
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"Let reason govern desire."

Cicero, Marcus T. on reason   

"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

Fromm, Erich on death
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"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."

Passos, John Dos on careers
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"You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet."

Macauley, Ed on excellence
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"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."

Mccormack, Mark on friends and friendship
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"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."

Mansfield, Katherine on love
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"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on ideas
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words
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"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship   

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

Plato on music
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"A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on mistakes   

"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything."

Magazine, Bernard on mistakes
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"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

Dickens, Charles on time
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"Let's face it, writing is hell."

Styron, William on writers and writing
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"They can because they think they can."

Virgil on belief
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"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea."

Thoreau, Henry David on news   

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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