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"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."	Douglas Noel Adams
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."	William Adams
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."	Edward Albee
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."	Lloyd Alexander
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."	George Herbert Allen
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."	Woody Allen
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people."	Jan Ashford
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty."	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace."	Saint Augustine
"When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements."	Pearl Bailey
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."	Bruce Barton
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."	Thomas Arnold Bennett
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."	William John Bennett
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."	Warren G. Bennis
"You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world."	Sir Walter Besant
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."	Hans Albrecht Bethe
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."	Josh Billings
"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life."	Srully D. Blotnick
"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."	Dr. Joyce
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Albert Einstein	Alexis Carrel	Anatole France
Anne Frank	Bernard Mannes Baruch	Bhagavad Gita
Brendan Francis	Bronwyn Davies	Bruce Barton
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	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	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson