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Quote by Robert Shea
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. – Robert Shea

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Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. – Robert Shea

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design
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. – Robert Shea

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strength
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! – Taslima Nasrin

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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Nature

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. – Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851

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But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? – Vincent Van Gogh

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success. – Napoleon Hill

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I can accept failure, but I cant accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

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