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“When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.”
Source : Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.12, Hachette UK
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“... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.”
Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.79, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.”
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“Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.”
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“If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.”
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“I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.”
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“We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.”
Source : Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.
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“If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.”
