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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
“Go as far as you can see and you will see further. ”
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
“After all is said and done - more is said than done.”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
“Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one.”
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ”
“Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all Borg.”
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
“Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
“If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
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