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The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

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We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us

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To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

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The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

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Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

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The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

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Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.

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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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