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"When you keep telling yourself that you are going to start in the future you are really telling yourself that you will never start. The future will never come. You have to get past the excuses that you are giving yourself that prevent you from starting today, right now. If you keep letting yourself tell you lies you will never find the success you are searching for."

"Waiting for things to happen is like daydreaming. To break out of that cycle, you must be willing to take the first small step."

"To build up your speed and create momentum, do you need to be pushed or pulled? Successfully shifting gears requires synchronization, coordination, and a sense of speed, whether fast or slow. Sometimes it is simply a matter of shaking up your routine to get things rolling in the right direction."

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

"Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."

"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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