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  • Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bobby Jindal To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.
    The Washington Post, published November 9, 2008
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • George Orwell To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Leo Burnett To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Samuel Johnson To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
    Works (1787)
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Rancic To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Susan B. Anthony To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Brenda Song To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Calvin Harris To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Jean Claude Killy To win you have to risk loss.
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  • Lord George Byron To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Katherine Mansfield To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lorrie Moore To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • Maurice Blanchot To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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