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• Stability is more essential to success than brilliance. -- Richard Lloyd Jone
• Success is getting up just one more time than you fall.
• Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. -- An Wang
• The higher you go the more dependent you become on others.
• Beverly: "O'Brien, Geordi, Worf, Wesley...my *son*!
  They have been the living, breathing backbone of this ship for over three years!...
• Success in any realm of life comes more often from taking chances or risks than from careful and cautious planning.
• Get up one time more than you're knocked down. -- Peter's Principle of Succe
• Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.
  -- Douglas Pike...
• Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be.
  Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot....