"DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues.……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common… — John C. Maxwell
• Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley… — John Playfair
• Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Francis Richter
• The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the… — Kyle Cease
• War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for… — Carl von Clausewitz
• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to… — Seneca the Younger
• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? — Theodore Roethke

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