Quote #15

All great achievements require time.

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  1. Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
  2. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
  3. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with i…
  4. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
  5. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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  7. When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this …
  8. Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.

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