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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
"¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨"
"If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins."
"Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy."
"Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation."
"Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win."
"Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning."
"It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory."
"I don't see a lot of guys that have done that [winning three times before age 24], besides Tiger Woods, of course, and, you know, the other legends of the game. It's just one of those things, I believe in myself and – especially with how hard I've worked – I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself."
"The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over."
"Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching."
"Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying."
"I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true."
"To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material."
"Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched."
"I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage."
"I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild."
"Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner."
"Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win."
