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"America's rich musical heritage reflects the diversity of our people. Among many influences, the cultural traditions brought to this land from Africa more than four centuries ago and the remarkable mu…"
"Man seems the only growth that dwindles here."
"What is needed is a homely experiment which could be carried out in the basement with parts from an old sewing machine and an Ingersoll watch, with an old file of Popular Mechanics standing by for ref…"
"Modern warfare, we discovered, was to a far greater extent than ever before a conflict of chemists and manufacturers. Manpower, it is true, was indispensable, and generalship will always, whatever the…"
": Be ambitious for that attainment of all that a man ought to be."
"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,"
"I heard Edwin Fischer, who did not mean much to me. I heard another pianist in Berlin who had a big success and I thought he was awful — Mischa Levitzki. Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fi…"
"What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all."
"The abolition of private property has become not only possible but absolutely necessary. ... The outcome can only be the victory of the proletariat."
"Not at first. She was against new things. She thought I would never be successful, and that was wrong, she was wrong. Later she started to believe that I could maybe be somebody. But it was always a b…"
"Trump’s personals have shifted through the years on any number of issues, "Trumpism", for lack of a better term, has emerged as a populist blend of nationalism and. It is vociferously anti-immigration…"
"It is my conviction that the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, of true and false, of creative and destructive …"
"Americans tend to celebrate even the most mediocre or basic accomplishments... It's like weddings to me. Why is that a big deal?... Why do you have to have a big shindig where you're, like, "Look, we'…"
"In the providential history of mankind, Adam fell on the individual level; Noah fell on the family level; Abraham on the tribal level ; Moses, on the national level; and Jesus, both on the national an…"
"Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person...Yourself."
"...ignoring the potential force possessed by a homogeneous race, bemused by the slogans of human equality, all parliaments adopted the dogma of infinite toleration. Tolerance toward the alien, the hos…"
"Winston S. Churchill. "Tormihoiatus". Tallinn: Varrak, 1995"
"translate aspects of culture never successfully recorded by the scientist, although often caught by the artist, into some form of communication sufficiently clear and sufficiently unequivocal to satis…"
"Lata Mangeshkar called her Tapaswini ."
"The intermediate goal is the creation of millions of new jobs and livelihood opportunities. This would necessitate being able to successfully attract much greater amounts of direct investments, especi…"
Authors on success gaining momentum today
Donald Trump
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
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Warren Farrell
Steve Maraboli
John Kenneth Galbraith
Chinmayananda Saraswati
Roberto Clemente