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" The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. "

John F. Kennedy

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" A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. "

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" The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. "

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" A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. "

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" The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. "

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