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“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
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“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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