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~ With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~


~ For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. ~


~ Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. ~


~ Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. ~


~ A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. ~


~ The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need. ~


~ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~


~ We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~


~ Disappointment is often the salt of life. ~


~ First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~


~ Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~


~ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~


~ An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. ~


~ A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. ~


~ A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. ~


~ An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. ~


~ Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. ~


~ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~


~ A victory won over self, is the only victory acceptable to God. ~


~ When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~


~ A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist ~


~ It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. ~


~ The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. ~


~ Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~


~ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~


~ There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ~


~ Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision. ~


~ Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward. ~


~ The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul ~


~ The eyes are the mirror of the soul ~


~ The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ~


~ We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~


~ Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~


~ Dancers are the athletes of God. ~


~ Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~


~ Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. ~


~ There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~


~ Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ~


~ He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ~


~ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ~


~ The way of the world is meeting people through other people. ~


~ We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~


~ We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~


~ You will never win if you never begin. ~


~ The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win ~


~ The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win ~


~ Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. ~


~ You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~


~ Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. ~


~ To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~


~ Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~


~ When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ~


~ A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~


~ It takes two men to make one brother. ~


~ There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. ~


~ Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ~


~ Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, its the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely. ~


~ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~


~ Act as if it were impossible to fail. ~


~ A minute's success pays the failure of years. ~



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