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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,
it has been owing more to patient attention,
than to any other talent.

... Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)


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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price,
you can get it done.

... Mike Ditka


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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

... Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"


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The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind
that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

... Ruby Dee


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We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in
the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

... Francis J. Braceland


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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when
they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds
anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates
confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually
leads to success.

... Brian Adams


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You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

... James Lane Allen


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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)


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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree,
there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

... Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)


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Creativity can solve almost any problem.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

... George Lois


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