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It's the last inch that counts.

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If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

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About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

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Two parts of empathy: Skill (tip of iceberg) and Attitude (mass of the iceberg).

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.

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Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

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Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

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One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.

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Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present.

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Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start an epidemic.

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Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!

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Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

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Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you.

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Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

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Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

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The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

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Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

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In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.

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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.

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Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages.

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Two million years from now the scientists can start a row by claming that the creatures of that period descended from us.

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Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans.

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Don't be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals.

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A good example is the best sermon.

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Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

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Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy.

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Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

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Live as you wish your kids would.

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Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

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Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Nothing in excess.

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Don't make excuses, make good.

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Exercise: you don't have time not to.

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Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent.

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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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Everyone has 20/20 hindsight

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

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Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

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Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

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The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face

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There are no traffic jams in the second mile.

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The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today?

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I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

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Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.

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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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Failure is the path of least persistence

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.

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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.

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If you've never failed you've never tried.

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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People don't fail, they give up

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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