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"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." ~ Robert Hughes

"All the rudiments for success in life are to be found ironing trousers" ~ Chris Eubank, Boxer

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together." ~ Verna M. Kelly

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs." ~ Author Unknown

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." ~ James Bryant Conant

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." ~ Lilly Tomlin

"Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity - but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money." ~ Earl Warren

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." ~ Helen Keller

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." ~ Albert Einstein

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." ~Robert Wilensky

"The early bird may catch the worm. But it's the second mouse that gets the cheese" ~ Jeremy Paxman, Broadcaster

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she's in hot water." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower" ~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England

"The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult." ~ Mme Du Deffand

"Duct tape is like the Force – it has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the Universe together" ~ Carl Zwanzig

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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