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You can't buy what is popular and do well. -- Warren Buffett

Play by the rules, but be ferocious. -- Phil Knight

Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke

Act as if it were impossible to fail. -- Dorothea Brande

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
-- Gail Pool

Everyone has a plan ... until they get hit. -- Mike Tyson

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility
as a means of transportation. --Yann Martel

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. -- Chinese Proverb

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. -- Persian Proverb

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -- Thomas Jefferson

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. -- Euripides

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. -- Latin Proverb

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. -- English Proverb

As the means, so the end. -- Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -- Margaret Thatcher

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time -- but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
-- Charles E. Wilson

All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are near. Offer the enemy a bait to lure him, feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Keep him under strain and wear him down. When he is united, divide him. Attack where he is unprepared; sally out when he does not expect you. These are the strategist's keys to victory. It is not possible to discuss them beforehand.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

You cannot make a cheap palace. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forget your opponents. Always play against par. -- Sam Snead

The strongest of all warriers are these two -- Time and Patience. -- Leo Tolstoy

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. -- W. Griswold

I work on a certain move constantly; then, finally, it doesn't seem so risky to me. The move stays dangerous and looks dangerous to my foes, but not to me. Hard work has made it easy. That's my secret. That's why I win. -- Nadia Comaneci

I never like to think of the future. It comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein

Work your way up or rust your way out. -- Holton

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

Fear less, hope more.
Eat less, chew more.
Whine less, breathe more.
Hate less, love more.
And all good things are yours.
-- Swedish Proverb

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -- Robert A. Heinlein

As long as you're going to think anyway -- you might as well think BIG!
-- Donald Trump

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
-- Bette Davis

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.
-- William Safire, The New York Times. He went on to say that Speaker of The House Newt Gingrich should step aside, then come back as either Speaker or a presidential candidate after rebuilding his reputation.

Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires. -- Augustine of Hippo

The only known cure for fear is faith. -- Lena Kellogg Sadler

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

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