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  The real contest is within. The real trophy is the self....
• Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...
• To excel at what you do, you must love doing it.
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. -- Confuciu
• A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies, because if you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in othe
  if you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you....
• If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -- Woodrow Wilson.
• Do whatever your enemies don't want you to do. -- Gary Novak
• If you want to be a Raelet, you gotta let Ray.
• If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
  -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist, Pensee...