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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
 Robert Staughton Lynd

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
 Robert Staughton Lynd
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
 Robert Staughton Lynd