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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. – Thomas Carlyle

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain

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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The great accomplishment of Jobss life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies – his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness – in the service of perfection. – Malcolm Gladwell

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The sea, the great unifier, is mans only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. – Bill Maher

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The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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