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"As clichA© as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence."
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"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
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"If you cannot lead, do not mislead."
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"Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them."
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"The church that emphasises on miracles are indirectly preaching that merit does not mater."
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"Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth."
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"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."
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"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
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"He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue."
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"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
Ambition
"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body."
War
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Motivation
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
Effort
"Now and then I am asked as to 'what books a statesman should read,' and my answer is, poetry and novels " including short stories under the head of novels."
Education
"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
Society
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
Psychology
"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."
Happiness
"Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience."
Ethics
"It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."
Motivation
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