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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.”
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
“Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.”
“Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.”
“Wake up and smile! Wake up and be grateful!”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
“The only real laughter comes from despair.”
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
“Living a life that has a greater purpose and living up to it is the ultimate degree that we should strive for.”
“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
“The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.”
“The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object - one thing to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.”
“Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good.”
“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”
“Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.”
“Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.”
“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
“Empowerment is not about giving people power, it's about unleashing the power they already have.”
“Storms don't last forever.”
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