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“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”
Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.90, Random House
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“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.”
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“I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.”
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“If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Source : First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
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“You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.”
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“Only those with passion can become masters.”
Source : Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons
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“I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.”
