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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- Wilfred A. Peterson

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
- Phil Jackson

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- G. K. Chesterton

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter

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