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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Leadership Men Success
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Found Success Years
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Directors Inspire United States
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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