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The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job. Anything will set it going.

Jean Anouilh

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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.


Norman Vincent Peale
US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

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But be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

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"Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment."

John Spenkelink

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My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time---
To let the punishment fit the crime---
The punishment fit the crime.

W. S. Gilbert

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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle

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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

C. P. Snow
English novelist & scientist (1905 - 1980)

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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson

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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

Oscar Wilde