Quote #11

'Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.'

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  2. 'I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.'
  3. 'If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the gross national pr…
  4. 'Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one da…
  5. 'You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.'
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  7. 'If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.'
  8. 'Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.'

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