"I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them."
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"We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that."
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
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"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention."
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"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."
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"The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself."
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"Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."
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"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others."
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"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
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"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."
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"Great hopes make great men."
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"Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be"
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"Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive."
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"The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition."
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"If you don't give up, you still have a chance."
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"To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others."
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"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman."
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"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."
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"We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes."
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