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There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

- William Shakespeare

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

- Mike Tyson

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

- Willie Mays

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

- Winston Churchill

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

- T. S. Eliot

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

- Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

- Alexander Pope

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

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