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• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

  Lin Yutang

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• How many ‘coming men’ has one known? Where on earth do they all go to?

  Arthur Wing Pinero

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• I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

  Arthur J. Goldberg

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• Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

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• The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

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• There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles.

  David Lloyd George

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• Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

  Elaine Morgan

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• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.

  Louis Dudek

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• There is endless merit in a man’s knowing when to have done.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can’t even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

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• I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

  Lucille Ball

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• Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

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• For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

  Mason Cooley

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• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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• It’s them that takes advantage that gets advantage i’ this world.

  George Eliot

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