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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters.
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Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
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