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Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over... · Albert Einstein: Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish... · Albert Einstein: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination... · Albert Einstein: Not everything that counts can be counted, and... · Albert Einstein: If you can't explain it simply, you don't... · Albert Einstein: Everything should be made as simple as... · Henry Ford: If I had asked people what they wanted, they... · Peter Drucker: Culture eats strategy for breakfast. · Peter Drucker: What gets measured gets managed. · Abraham Lincoln: The best way to predict the future is to create... · Abraham Lincoln: In the end, it's not the years in your life... · Abraham Lincoln: Whatever you are, be a good one. · Mahatma Gandhi: Be the change you wish to see in the world. · Mahatma Gandhi: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you... · Oscar Wilde: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. · Winston Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it... · Winston Churchill: If you're going through hell, keep going. · Mark Twain: Twenty years from now you will be more... · Mark Twain: The two most important days in your life are... · Mark Twain: I didn't have time to write a short letter, so... · Maya Angelou: People will forget what you said, people will... · Marilyn Monroe: Well-behaved women seldom make history. · Eleanor Roosevelt: Do one thing every day that scares you. · Eleanor Roosevelt: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds... · Eleanor Roosevelt: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery... · Theodore Roosevelt: Comparison is the thief of joy. · Aristotle: Quality is not an act, it is a habit. · Confucius: Choose a job you love, and you will never have... · Benjamin Franklin: Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may... · George Bernard Shaw: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is... · Dr. Seuss: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it... · Thomas Edison: I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways... · Thomas Edison: Opportunity is missed by most people because it... · Walt Disney: If you can dream it, you can do it. · Nelson Mandela: It always seems impossible until it's done. · Nelson Mandela: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate... · Edmund Burke: The only thing necessary for the triumph of... · Ralph Waldo Emerson: What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear... · Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead... · Plato: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a... · Thomas Jefferson: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the... · Charles Darwin: It is not the strongest of the species that... · Lao Tzu: Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch... · Antoine de Saint-Exupery: If you want to build a ship, don't drum up... · Pablo Picasso: Good artists copy, great artists steal. · African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want... · Kevin Durant: Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work... · Nelson Mandela: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but... · Leo Durocher, in these words: Nice guys finish last. · Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca: Play it again, Sam. · Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories: Elementary, my dear Watson. · Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake. · Winston Churchill: We make a living by what we get, but we make a... · Winston Churchill: A pessimist sees the difficulty in every... · Winston Churchill: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood... · Mahatma Gandhi: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. · Abraham Lincoln: Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you... · Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can make you feel inferior without your... · Mother Teresa: People are often unreasonable and... · Harriet Tubman: I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a... · Dalai Lama: If you think you are too small to make a... · Margaret Thatcher: Being powerful is like being a lady. If you... · John F. Kennedy: One person can make a difference, and every... · Harry S. Truman: It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do... · Amelia Earhart: Never interrupt someone doing something you... · Bill Gates: 640K ought to be enough for anybody. · Bill Gates: Life is not fair; get used to it. · Bill Gates: Choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because... · John D. Rockefeller: Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for... · John D. Rockefeller: Good management consists of showing average... · Henry Ford: Stopping advertising to save money is like... · Henry Ford: My best friend is the one who brings out the... · Franklin D. Roosevelt: Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather... · Albert Einstein: Compound interest is the most powerful force in... · Albert Einstein: We cannot solve our problems with the same... · Albert Einstein: If I had an hour to save the world, I would... · Albert Einstein: The only thing that interferes with my learning... · Socrates: Education is the kindling of a flame, not the... · Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all of your... · Marcus Aurelius: You have power over your mind, not outside... · Ralph Waldo Emerson: To laugh often and much; to win the respect of... · Ralph Waldo Emerson: What lies behind us and what lies before us are... · Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend... · Bertrand Russell: The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. · Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and response there is a space... · Stephen Hawking: The greatest enemy of knowledge is not... · Carl Sagan: Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to... · Isaac Newton: Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. · Lao Tzu: Being deeply loved by someone gives you... · Sun Tzu: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route... · Maya Angelou: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer... · Maya Angelou: There is no greater agony than bearing an... · Mark Twain: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's... · Mark Twain: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. · Mark Twain: It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear... · C.S. Lewis: Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's... · C.S. Lewis: You are never too old to set another goal or to... · C.S. Lewis: Integrity is doing the right thing, even when... · Antoine de Saint-Exupery: A goal without a plan is just a wish. · Vince Lombardi: Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing. · John Wooden: Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. · Muhammad Ali: Impossible is just a big word thrown around by... · Vincent van Gogh: I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. · Walt Whitman: Keep your face always toward the sunshine and... · George Orwell: In a time of universal deceit, telling the... · Victor Hugo: There is nothing more powerful than an idea... · J.K. Rowling: Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of... · George Bernard Shaw: The single biggest problem in communication is... · John Lennon: Life is what happens to you while you're busy...