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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your read more
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men read more
We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
 The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for
everyone. It requires no force or effort or read more 
 The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for
everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little
more than changing our ideas about what is normal. 
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
 A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has
understanding among men and discipline in all action read more 
 A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has
understanding among men and discipline in all action he performs. 
 It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up read more 
 It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous. 
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
 There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not
the hated.  
 There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not
the hated.