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“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.”
William Bennett
“The smaller the function, the greater the management.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“Greater dooms win greater destinies.”
Heraclitus
“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence”
Charles Darwin
“The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control”
Starhawk
“Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.”
Ty Cobb
“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
Michel de Montaigne
“The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence”
Anne O'Hare McCormick