"If you want it you must obtain it by great labor."

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T. S. Eliot

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“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
“This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.”
“The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.”

Source : "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. and John de Pillis Rose, 1988.
“But the first thing that we have to do is to say, â€œI walk towards the tunnel, and Iâ€™m on my own, and Iâ€™m not afraid. And I have no regrets.”
“My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.”
“The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.”
“The bad guys dont always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.”
“I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.”

Source : "O'Donnell hits the national stage" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 17, 2010.

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