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"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."
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"Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction."

"When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time."

"The Bible is the constant fountain for faith, conduct, and inspiration from which we drink daily."

"You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you."

"Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth and failure to hit the target would mean a wasted life."

"Discouragement is your greatest enemy."

"Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations."

"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes."

"I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."

"Find the willpower to begin work."
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"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."

"I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended."

"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."

"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."
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