"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
-Alexandre Dumas
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope."
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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
-Alexandre Dumas
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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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