"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

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Source : "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

Jean de La Fontaine

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“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.”

Source : "Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853".
“It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.”
“I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.
“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”
“For all the yoga I do (and I do plenty), I also love the time I spend jogging. It gets me in sync with myself.”

Source : "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“External pressure seems to produce internal unity.”

Source : "Man, the State, and War" by Kenneth Waltz, (p. 149), 1959.

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