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"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
"Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem."
"When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli."
"When you spent your time, you are actually spending your life."
"When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse."
"It is your life, accept the responsibility."
"Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can't wear her smiling face to the platform. You've got to put that smile on your own face."
"We are the author of our own destruction."
"We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping."
"The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship."
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route."
"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so."
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