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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
    Source: Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Lord Chesterfield No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Al Gore No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Channing Pollock No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Victor Hugo No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Plato No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Annie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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