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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Failure Success Courage Success Is

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Politics Age Political Hatred

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

People World Problem Always

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Motivational Work Time You

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon

Truth Is Trust Travel Shoes Truth

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Freddie Mercury

Happiness Money Damn Well

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Nature Love Sea Music

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli

Faith Memory Man Art

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Pet Friends Questions Animals

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Richard Branson

Day Business People Better

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Life Beginning Life Is A End

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Good People Great Conversation

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You Truth Matter Impossible Whatever

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

David Attenborough

Change Home Environmental Food

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Hard Work Work Promises Hard

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Eyes Dreams Day Night

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Day Knowledge You Kindness

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

George Harrison

Simple Home River Flowers

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

Together Ideas More Engineering

Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.

Life Work Mother Best

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life Art Drawing Conclusions

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Dreams Achievement Time Bird

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Good Women Men Free

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty Simple You Rose

The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.

Memories Beautiful You Money

The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings.

Car Drive Way Feelings

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