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Quotes by American Authors

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."


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"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."


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"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."


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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."


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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."


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"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."


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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."


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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."


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"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."


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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."


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"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."


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"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."


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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."


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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."


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"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."


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"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."


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"I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself."


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"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."


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"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."


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"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."


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"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."


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"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."


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"One man with courage makes a majority."


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"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."


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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."


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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."


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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."


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"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."


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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."


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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."


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"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."


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"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."


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"Never surrender opportunity for security."


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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."


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"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."


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