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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."
Imagination

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."
Success

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
Opportunity

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."
Success

"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."
Consciousness

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
Excellence

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."
Goal

"There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake."
Courage

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
Ability

"We make the world we live in and shape our own environment."
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