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    • January 7, 2013 at 12:55 pm #4458
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        Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Former president Calvin Coolidge

      • January 8, 2013 at 7:42 am #9172
        Rickey
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          Love those historical quotes, and after 20+ years of active military service have heard & read many. One of my all time favorites is by President T. Roosevelt:

          It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

        • January 8, 2013 at 6:45 pm #9175
          Brian
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            awesome quotes! I love both of them. I think I’ll print them and put them on my desk 🙂

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