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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

—Bobby Knight

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What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all — in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, and preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.

—Sterling Hayden

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Humans — despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments — owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

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Humans — despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments — owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

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If you don't try at anything, you can't fail. It takes back bone to lead the life you want.

—Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

—Harry S. Truman

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You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong.

—Alain de Botton

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

—Elbert Hubbard

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My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.

—Unknown

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I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

—Louis Sachar in Holes

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

—Alphonse de Lamartine

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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

—Jane Wagner

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Every moment that passes and I am stuck in this room is a moment that I am not working toward accomplishing my quest. Waiting is not acting. And not acting is akin to failing. How can I wait anymore?

—Bree Despain in The Shadow Prince

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