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• The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
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• I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
  o reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor....
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• Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. -- Petrarch
• It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
  -- Havelock Elli...