"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves."

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.926, e-artnow

Carl Holmes

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“Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288
“Itâ€™s nice to be liked, but itâ€™s better by far to get paid.”
“Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.”
“I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'”
“You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.”
“We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate rates in the world. It restricts the growth of small enterprises that need to plow capital back into their businesses and forces companies and jobs to move overseas.”
“Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

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