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Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
 People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.  
 People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first. 
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Once you label me you negate me.
Once you label me you negate me.
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.
 When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free and was never read more 
 When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. 
 The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his
work and his play, his labor and his read more 
 The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his
work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his
information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows
which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he
does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him
he's always doing both. 
 I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very
destructiveness on both friend and foe has read more 
 I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very
destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means
of settling international disputes.