“ When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. ”
- Robert Oxton Bolton- Copy
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“ To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something. ”
- Charlotte P. Gillman- Copy
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“ Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ”
- Muhammad Anwar el Sadat- Copy
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“ Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him. ”
- Diogenes- Copy
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“ Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing — only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow — after you have done your best to achieve success today. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
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“ Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ Honour, worthily obtained, is in its nature a personal thing, and incommunicable to any but those who had some share in obtaining it. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
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“ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. ”
- Sir William Bragg- Copy
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“ Wisdom alone is true ambition's aimWisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
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“ Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ”
- Thomas Arnold- Copy
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“ In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”
- Jean Baptiste Colbert- Copy
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“ If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. ”
- Velilind’s Laws of Experimentation- Copy
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