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  2. 22 Best Success Quotes - Motivational Quotes About Success - AOL

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    Find motivation in these success quotes from athletes, writers and other famous figures. These short messages focus on hard work, failure and achievement. 22 Best Success Quotes - Motivational ...

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Live for today, for tomorrow never comes; Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [16]

  4. A rising tide lifts all boats - Wikipedia

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    It was in Sorensen's first year working for him, during Kennedy's tenure in the Senate, while Sorensen was trying to tackle economic problems in New England, that he happened upon the phrase. He wrote that he noticed that "the regional chamber of commerce, the New England Council, had a thoughtful slogan: 'A rising tide lifts all the boats.'"

  5. Necessity is the mother of invention - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest recorded instances of the proverb is in one of Aesop’s Fables, “The Crow and the Pitcher” from the mid 6th century BCE. Plato's Republic says "our need will be the real creator", [5] which Jowett's 1894 translation rendered loosely as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."

  6. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] This inaction may be due to procrastination, laziness, or another subversive vice. [5] As such, the saying is an admonishment that a good intention is meaningless unless followed through. [6] This is consistent with another saying, often attributed to Edmund Burke: "the only thing necessary for evil to win is for good men to do nothing."

  7. Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of New Testament evangelists on the shoulders of Old Testament prophets, looking up at the Messiah (from the south rose window of Chartres Cathedral). The visual image (from Bernard of Chartres) appears in the stained glass of the south transept of Chartres Cathedral.

  8. ‘I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering’ - AOL

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    It’s why despite Nvidia’s success—the company has a $2 trillion market cap—Huang would still welcome hardship at his organization. “To this day I use the phrase 'pain and suffering ...

  9. Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing - Wikipedia

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    In 1950, at a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo physical education workshop, Sanders told his group: "Men, I'll be honest. Winning isn't everything", then following a long pause, "Men, it's the only thing!" [3] In a three-part article, December 7, 1953, on Red Sanders, by Bud Furillo of the Los Angeles Herald and Express, the phrase is quoted in the sub ...