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Barbara Tuchman

"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."

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"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."

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

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"Discouragement is your greatest enemy."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"Find the willpower to begin work."

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"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."
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