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  • Bob Ney Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Samuel Johnson Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Russell Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Roger Staubach Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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  • John F. Kennedy Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Anna Held Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
    John Quincy Adams
    American statesman (1767 - 1848)
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  • Jean Paul Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
    David Ben-Gurion
    Israeli politician, founder of and first Prime Minister of Israel (1886 - 1973)
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  • Orson Welles Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ray Kroc Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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