"The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings."
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"Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium."
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"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
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"How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance."
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"Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in."
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"The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
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"It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war."
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"You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time."
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"To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack."
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"In fair weather prepare for foul."
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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
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"In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life."
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"I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it."
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"God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each."
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"I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings."
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"The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage."
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"I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living."
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"We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear."
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"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
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"Whatever happened to preparations A through G?"
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