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Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
- Luck
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory
The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
JFJerry Della Feminaborn 1936Often credited to Bill Cosby
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book III, 5
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950
A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington1732–1799
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack