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“Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.”
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“Hit them where they ain't.”
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“One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.”
Source : Alexandra Ripley (2011). “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind”, p.471, Hachette UK
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“The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.”
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“When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.”
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“It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.”
Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.206
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“Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”
Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.”
Source : Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.286, Oxford University Press
