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  The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable....
• Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously
  and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. -- Booth Tarkingto...
• There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who went before them.
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• When people have a job to do, particularly a vital but difficult one, they will invariably put it off until the last possible moment, and most of them will put it off even longer.
  -- Gordon L. Becke...