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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.: Robert Byrne
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.: Anonymous
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.: George Winters
No good deed goes unpunished.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.: Gladys Bronwyn Stern
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.: David Mahoney
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.: Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
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