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Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
 Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"
probably lost.  
 Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"
probably lost. 
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and read more
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
 Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing
your proper role.  
 Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing
your proper role. 
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp read more
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
 Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more 
 Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. 
 There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and read more 
 There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.