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"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and a willingness to learn from mistakes." Colin Powell
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"The art is to get up one more time than you are knocked down" Winston Churchill
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"He who wants to build tall towers must spend a long time on the foundations." Anton Bruckner
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"Those who want something find ways; those who don’t find excuses." Willy Meurer
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"Do not lament what cannot be changed, but change what is to be lamented." William Shakespeare
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life." Mark Twain
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"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results." Albert Einstein
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"Innovation stagnation is not an excuse, it’s a diagnosis." Sabine Hauswirth
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"Be kind to yourself and you will become your best friend." Unbekannt
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"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt" Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
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"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others." Thomas Sowell
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"Everything the government is doing right now is designed to make you fat, weak, stupid, depressed, lazy, and reliant on crumbs they wipe off their plates. Health replaced by pharmaceuticals. Education replaced by programming. Hard work replaced by handouts. These people hate you." Ian Smith Jr.
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"Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods." Samuel Phillips Huntington
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"Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos." Edward Bernays
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"As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented." Edward Bernays
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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark." Walter Lippmann
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"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies." Walter Lippmann
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses." H. L. Mencken