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"If you see the bandwagon you've missed it."

Phillips, James on opportunity    Share


"Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune."

Ling, Nicholas on ignorance    Share

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Proverb, Chinese on direction
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"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."

Shaw, George Bernard on riches    Share

"Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K."

Mcevoy, J. P. on work    Share

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

Prescott, W. B. on patience
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"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"

Montapert, Alfred A. on dream
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"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."

Darrow, Clarence on freedom
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"Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity."

Hubbard, Kin on guests    Share

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on media
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."

Camus, Albert on media    Share

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"Character matters; leadership descends from character."

Limbaugh, Rush on character
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"Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest."

Banks, Harry F. on power
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."

Kettering, Charles F. on thoughts and thinking
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Disraeli, Benjamin on nations
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"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

Michelangelo on master
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"Who dares wins."

Motto of the British Special Air Service on risk
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"You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse."

Peers, John on self-expression
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"I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States. "

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on uncategorised    Share

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

Bagnold, Enid on fathers
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"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

Ruth, Babe on perseverance
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"A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."

Johnson, Paul on family
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"If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?"

Franklin, Benjamin on riches
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"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

Jefferson, Thomas on trade    Share

"Just do it."

Nike Corporation on action    Share

"Life flows on within you and without you."

Harrison, George on life
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"Unless we remember we cannot understand."

Forster, Edward M. on memory
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"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on."

Simmons, Jake on knowledge
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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Whitman, Walt on time    Share

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Disraeli, Benjamin on facts
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"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life."

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth on courage
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"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

Floyd, Doug on harmony
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"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."

Johnson, Philip on architecture    Share

"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on history and historians
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"In politics, nothing is contemptible."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics
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"The human voice is the organ of the soul."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on voice    Share

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