Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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When one door closes, another one opens.

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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.

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Observe, Remember, Compare.

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

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