I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLMan is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
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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.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
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The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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