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All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

Know your enemy and know yourself,

and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

To be yourself in a world

that is constantly trying to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment.

The secret of getting ahead

is getting started

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Desire is the starting

point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire

which transcends everything.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Life is about capturing fleeting moments

and turning them into meaning.

If you want to conquer fear,

don't sit home and think about it.

Go out and get busy

We must fight for the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.

I am willing to fight for peace.

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves

refuse to go to war.

My model for business is The Beatles.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

I don't care what people think of me.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that

a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

If you want to build a strong society,

you must build strong institutions.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

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.