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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather

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The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. – Thomas Foxwell Buxton

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Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. – Vivian Komori

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In your so-called dreary life, all the rainbow colors are there — just close your eyes and dream them. Soon enough they will be real, if you believe in your own colors. – Terri Guillemets

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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

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