"You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind"

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Source : Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.52, Penguin

Napoleon Hill

“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.”

Source : Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
“We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.”

Source : "Thinking to Some Purpose". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 63, 1939.
“The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.”

Source : Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books
“We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.”
“The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.”

Source : Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”
“My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?”

Source : Letter to the California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.
“When you associate with scum, you become scum.”
“Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.”

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