The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F. Kettering
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. – Honore de Balzac
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. Theyre also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time. – Hamid Karzai
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve ones dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. – W. Somerset Maugham
