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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."
- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)
English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
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"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one who remembers all that he wrought and endured."
- Homer
The legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
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"There are no unrealistic dreams, just unrealistic timelines."
- Nido Qubein (B - 1948)
American Lebanese-Jordanian businessman and motivational speaker who currently serves as president of High Point University since 2005
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"A man can be elegant or have style in many ways, and it does not only have to do with the way he dresses. A man is elegant because of the way he behaves, the way he speaks to and treats people, because he knows how to act in every situation, and because he never feels out of place."
- Domenico Dolce (B - 1958)
Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur who is one half of the luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana.
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- William Bruce Cameron (B - 1960)
American author who is most famous for his novel A Dog's Purpose
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"A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him."
- John Banville aka Benjamin Black (B - 1945)
Irish novelist who has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov"
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"The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly."
- Robert Sternberg (B - 1949)
American Psychologist who acted as a President for the American Psychological Association.
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"Many people believe that support is something that you give to someone you feel sorry for or that it means propping up someone who would fail unless you were there to give him a boost. But that's not the way I see it. Support is the boost you can give someone who can help himself but who needs a partner to open a window or push aside a roadblock."
- Dave Thomas (1932 - 2002)
American businessman and founder of Wendy's
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"Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing, the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude to any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way."
- Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997)
Author of the book "Man's Search For Meaning", Austrian neurologist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who is also the founder of logo therapy
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