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  1. Why not the best?
  2. I don't mean to suggest... that he is a man who is without controversy. He speaks his mind. Sometimes he has rivals who disagree with him; …
  3. You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
  4. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
  5. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
  6. Fish don't vote!
  7. At any moment during a twenty-four-hour day, only one-third of the people in the world are asleep. The other two-thirds are awake and creat…
  8. Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade rou…

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