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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."	Thomas Alva Edison
"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."	Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."	Albert Einstein
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."	George Ellis
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check."	M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher
"Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation."	Lewis S(amuel) Feuer
"You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers." [to former Enron CEO Keny Lay]"	Peter Fitzgerald
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."	Henry Ford
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe."	Anatole France
"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"	Brendan Francis
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"	Anne Frank
"Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!"	Anne Frank
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist."	J(ean) Paul Getty
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."	Kahlil Gibran
"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it."	Kahlil Gibran
"The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish."	Bhagavad Gita
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Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Carl Gustav Jung
Confucius	Dale Carnegie	Doris Wild Helmering
Doug Larson	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Joyce
Dr. Thomas Fuller	Earl Nightingale	Earnie Larsen
Edward Albee	Elbert Hubbard	Eric Butterworth
Ernest Hello	Etty Hilsum	Fran Lebowitz
General Charles De Gaulle	George Ellis	George Herbert Allen
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gerard Hargraves	Golda Meir
Golo Mann	Hans Albrecht Bethe	Harry Gray
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Hayes	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Heraclitus	Herman Hesse	Idi Amin Dada
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl Jones
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jan Ashford	Jesse Louis Jackson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John B. Gough	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Kenneth Galbraith	Josh Billings	J(ean) Paul Getty
J. Arthur Lewis	Kahlil Gibran	Lao-Tzu
Lewis S(amuel) Feuer	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lloyd Alexander
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mack R. Douglas	Madame Chiang
Marie Curie	Maurice Chevalier	Menander
Michael Korda	Mignon McLaughlin	M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher
Napolean Hill	Og Mandino	Oswald Mosley
Pearl Bailey	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peter Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Rensis Likert
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Montgomery
Russell Greene	R. D. Laing	Saint Augustine
Sir Walter Besant	Sophia Loren	Srully D. Blotnick
Stephen R. Covey	Sydney J. Harris	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Arnold Bennett	Ursula K. LeGuin
Victor Hugo	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Warren G. Bennis
William James	William Jennings Bryan	William Adams
William E. Holler	William John Bennett	Woody Allen
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