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• Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
  Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back....
• Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition.
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• hose who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded .
  . . Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena-- care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!...
• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylu
• Men of power have no time to read, yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
  -- Michael Foo...
• Few blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities.
• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -- Timothy Leary