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Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could n...

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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and...

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...

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We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure...

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Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their ...

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gat...

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the othe...

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The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also cre...

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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to...

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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of...

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Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and fail...

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Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to ...

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As long as one keeps searching the answers come.

"Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a l...

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If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded ...

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I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fi...

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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessorie...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pres...

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I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary t...

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'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes...

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Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the righ...

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One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little whi...

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He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope w...

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Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not nece...

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I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous ...

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I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you ...

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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip...

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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentme...

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur ...

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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary...

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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longe...

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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the...

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I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character ...

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They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successfu...

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In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa...

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I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going an...

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Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...

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Patient endurance attends to all things.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up o...

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I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of...

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'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's be...

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Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's beca...

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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do ...

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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the...

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Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.