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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
Explore more quotes by Colin Powell
"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."
"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
"Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'"
"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
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