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  • Bob Knight The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Joe Paterno The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Jack Handey The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
    Jack Handey
     
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Machiavelli The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • James Thurber The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Candace Bushnell The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Robert Frost The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Alan Cohen The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Blu Cantrell The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.
    Blu Cantrell
     
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  • Felix Frankfurter The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Edward Blishen The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Patricia Clifford The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
    Patricia Clifford
    American film producer
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