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[Fishmanpa]

"Whatever job I'm doing I try to do the best I can with it and enjoy it for what it is and what it entails. I passed the time in the shoe shop by trying to be the best damn shoe salesman in the whole of New Jersey. The fact that I didn't succeed and ended up washing the coffee cups in the kitchen didn't really matter. I just tried to get those coffee cups the cleanest they'd ever been. Playing in the band was another job. The only difference was, I was finally doing the one thing that I had any aptitude for."

- Jon Bon Jovi, who worked selling shoes before becoming a rock star and actor

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"Don't allow yourself to be intimidated! There is more than one road to joy."

- Author Pascal Bruckner, The Paradox of Love (1948 )
French writer

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"We tend to make courage too dramatic. Courage is often doing something simple, unpleasant, or boring again and again until we get it down pat. People who are physically challenged and who have the determination to get around their handicaps are great examples because their courage makes them test their limits every day."

- Dave Thomas (1932 - 2002)
American Businessman, Founder of Wendy's International Restaurant Chain

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"To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know."

- Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord (1754 - 1838)
French Statesman

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"The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift."

- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
French Playwright

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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

- Aeschylus 525-456 BC

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
16th President of the United States

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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."

- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

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"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"

- Jonathan Winters

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"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
German Philosopher

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