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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.
George S. Patton
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover
Hunger is the mother of anarchy.
Herbert Hoover
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.
Herbert Hoover
Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
Herbert Hoover