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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.
Unknown
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
Doug Horton
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
Erik Nupponen
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Use soft words and hard arguments.
Unknown
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
Unknown
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Walt Kelly
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
Rudyard Kipling
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
Doug Horton
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Nick Gorski
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop
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