A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. — Nelson Mandela

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I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

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Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work. – Nick Saban

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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ― Coco Chanel

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. — Bill Cosby

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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. - Jo Nesbo

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The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there. — Louis Farrakhan

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