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"Never
tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity."
-- George
S. Patton (1885-1945), American military leader
"Start by doing what's
necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible."
-- Saint
Francis of Assisi
"The greatest masterpieces
were once only pigments on a palette."
-- Henry S. Haskins
"Being defeated is often a
temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
-- Marilyn vos Savant
"If we resist our
passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French
epigramist
"The greatest mistake you
can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
"What you were yesterday
is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you
will be tomorrow."
--
from The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis, mystery novelist
"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than
to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
-- Whitney Young
"You've got to jump off
cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
-- Ray Bradbury
"An act of goodness is of
itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can
compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
-- Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian dramatist
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