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No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid. — Lupita Nyong'o
You got the hearts of lions, Good things, bad things, it doesn't matter, that's who you are... That's what carries us from here to where… — John Harbaugh
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain
Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind — Thomas Jefferson
with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to… — Thomas Jefferson
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our… — Thomas Jefferson
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so… — Thomas Jefferson
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance. — Rodney Dangerfield
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a… — Seneca the Younger
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before… — Sun Tzu
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu
Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. — Sun Tzu
The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the… — Sun Tzu
When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. — Sun Tzu
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. — Sun Tzu
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. — Po Bronson
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,… — Sun Tzu
A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state… — Niccolo Machiavelli
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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