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“Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.”

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Marguerite Steen, an American writer, was born on May 12, 1894, and passed away on August 4, 1975. Her works are known for their unique style and profound insights into the lives of women. more

“I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”

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“I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.”

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Author:Glenn T. Seaborg

“I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.”

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Author:Sam Walton

“I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

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