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“I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”

“... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.”

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Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.”

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Author:David Hume

“I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.”

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Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.”

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Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou