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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us…
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not…
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Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of…
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
— Honore de Balzac
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
— James M. Barrie
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
— Robert Burton
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,…
— Hannah Arendt
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
— Octavio Paz
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Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours,…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got…
— LeBron James
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
— Emile Coue
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