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"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." »Anonymous
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"the most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten." »Andre Malraux
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"the enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight." »Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
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"No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." »Arthur Godfrey
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"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." »Will Rogers
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." »Johann von Goethe
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"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say." »Barbara McClintock
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"It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much." »Steve Jobs
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile." »Lynda Barry
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"the man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind." »Endre Balogh
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"We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves." »Norman Fischer
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"the scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth." »George Eliot
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"Just as the track of birds that cleave the air Is not discovered, nor yet the path of fish That skim the water, so the course of those Who do good actions is not always seen." »Mahabharata
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"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! the very next stop is ashes and dust." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play." »Jerry Coleman
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"I would not bet against US innovation, entrepreneurship and business culture - the trinity that drives economic growth and recovery. Yes, we do face a major crisis, but we also do have a proven track record of recovery." »Med Jones
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"their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter." »LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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"there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. the rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill." »Carlyle
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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole." »Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay." »Eric Hoffer
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"Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved." »Von Humboldt
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"the modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. the earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet." »Jeremy Rifkin
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"Dr. Evil the details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it." »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
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