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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗

— Confucius

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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ↗

— Confucius

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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗

— Confucius

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗

— Confucius

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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