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" I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him. "

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" I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God. "

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" It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other. "

" Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. "

" If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing. "

" An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression. "

" Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization. "

" Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. "

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" I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me. "

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" All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. "

" The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds. "

" I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. "

" When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. "

" The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. "

" I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. "

" Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there. "

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" To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike. "

" The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people. "

" Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great. "

" I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way. "

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" If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. "

" Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. "

" I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. "

" I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. "

" To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! "

" While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. "

" I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. "

" The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. "

" I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. "

" Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. "