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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
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'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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