“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.”
                            
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“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.”
                            
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“Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.”
                            
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“He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.”
                            
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“their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.”
                            
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“those whom you praise will see in you the qualities that you see in them. Your success in the application of this formula will be in exact proportion to your faith in its soundness.” 
                            
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“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.”
                            
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“Quand la défaite surgit, acceptez-la comme le signal que
vos plans ne sont pas cohérents, reconstruisez ces plans, et
reprenez la voile une fois de plus vers vos aspirations. Si vous
abandonnez avant d’avoir atteint votre but, vous êtes un
“lâcheur”.”
                            
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“Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”
                            
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“If Europe had been blessed with more rulers with the human heart and the traits of honesty of ex-king Edward, for the past century, that unfortunate hemisphere now seething with greed, hate, lust, political connivance, and threats of war, would have a different and a better story to tell. A story in which Love and not Hate would rule.
                            
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“MAKE YOUR DESIRES CLEAR, AND TO REDUCE THEM TO WRITING.” 
                            
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“Some individuals appear to be “allergic” to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.”
                            
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“Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT,”
                            
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“You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.”
                            
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“time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. 
                            
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                                Napoleon Hill