Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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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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America is a young country with an old mentality.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.