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    Jaachynma N.E. Agu
    “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
    ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
    tags: accomplishments, african-american-authors, african-authors, agu-jaachynam-n-e, amazom, anyaele-sam-chiyson, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiysonovelty-bookclub, elections, entrepreneurship, fame, forbes, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, immortality, improvement, inspiration, international-authors, intimacy, it-is-time-to-get-very-rich, jaachynma, leadership, life, money, niche, nigerian-authors, president, reading, relationship, revolution, richest, risk-it, security, self-help, success, successful-living, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper, the-sagacity-of-sage, wealth
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    “REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS

    Before you were born,
    And were still too tiny for
    The human eye to see,
    You won the race for life
    From among 250 million competitors.
    And yet,
    How fast you have forgotten
    Your strength,
    When your very existence
    Is proof of your greatness.
    You were born a winner,
    A warrior,
    One who defied the odds
    By surviving the most gruesome
    Battle of them all.
    And now that you are a giant,
    Why do you even doubt victory
    Against smaller numbers,
    And wider margins?
    The only walls that exist,
    Are those you have placed in your mind.
    And whatever obstacles you conceive,
    Exist only because you have forgotten
    What you have already
    Achieved.

    Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achieve, affirmation, attitude, beauty, big, birth, born, competition, confidence, courage, egg, existence, eye, fears, giant, great, greatness, human, inspirational, life, living-achievement, loser, losing, loss, obstacles, odds, pains, poem, poetry, race, small, sperm, strength, struggles, success, successful, suffering, survivor, suzy-kassem, victory, warrior, win, winner, winners, winning, wisdom
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    Iain Pears
    “Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.”
    ― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
    tags: abilities, dialectics, education, greatness, hypatia-of-alexandria, knowledge, learning, murder, philosophers, skills, superiority, suppression, women
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: being-happy, fame, greatness, happiness, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, truth
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: 'he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone.' But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley
    tags: descartes, expression, future, great, greatness, potential, rene-descartes, rené-descartes, science, voltaire
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    Dale Carnegie
    “The first
    sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
    great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
    us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.”
    ― Dale Breckenridge Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
    tags: greatness, public-speaking
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    Georges Clemenceau
    “A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
    ― Georges Clemenceau
    tags: greatness, interesting, persistence, power, try
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