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#1

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

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#3

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: gonzo, happiness, risk

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#4

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

tags: risk, success, wealth

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#5

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique

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#6

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: aphorism, self-reliance

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#7

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading

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#8

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: popular

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#9

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: leadership

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#10

“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: devotion, leaders, religious

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#11

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: happiness, life, relationship-advice

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#12

“The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.”
― Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege, 1832

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#13

“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

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#14

“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.”
― Carl Von Clausewitz

tags: ambition, audacity, leadership

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#15

“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

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#16

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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#17

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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#18

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
― Sun Tzu

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#19

“Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.”
― J.P. Morgan

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#20

“A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.”
― J.P. Morgan

tags: alibis, finance, reason

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#21

“Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do.”
― J.P. Morgan

tags: astrology, billionaires, financial-astrology, j-p-morgan, nyse, wall-street

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#22

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: courage, inspirational, strength

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#23

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity

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#25

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity

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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: endurance, ideas, inspirational

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#27

“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.

[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: aspiration, challenge, kennedy, moon, space-race, space-travel, trial

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#28

“To those whom much is given, much is expected.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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#29

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ”
― John F. Kennedy

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#30

“I'm an idealist without illusions.

[Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days'”
― John F. Kennedy

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#31

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

[State of the Union Address January 11 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: economics, planning

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