It is not enough to have a ...

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
 René Descartes

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
 René Descartes
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
 René Descartes
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
 Rene Descartes
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
 Rene Descartes
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
 Rene Descartes