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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Opportunity Matter Luck Preparation Meeting
Forget the past. Nelson Mandela
Past Forget Forget The Past
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Education Good Purpose Make Human Human Beings Expertise Created Skill Teachers Beings Enlightened Good Human
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War Adversity Men Soldiers Triumph Brave Brave Men Brave Soldiers Just Rejoice
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Business Wind Favorable Know Does Sailing Which Port
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill
Too Much Too Else Seem Does Am Optimist Being Anything Anything Else Much Use
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Success Needs Man Enjoy Difficulties Because His Man Needs Necessary
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom Walk More Higher Placed Should Humbly
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill
You Try Will Half Meet Ought Back Danger Run Threatened Promptly Never Without Reduce Anything Turn Double Away
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Failure Courage Move On Our Resources Our Lives Hidden Find Faced Tackle Only Had Obstacles Know Within Always Were Did Move Realise Them Us Reserves Lives Resilience Need
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Education Self-Respect Dignity Human Being World Better Will Sense Field Live Every Increases Carried Only Could Individual Better Place Real Real Education His Human Real Sense Human Activity Being Place Realized Much Forward Each Each Individual Activity Enhances Her
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill
Our Shape Buildings Us Thereafter
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli
Good Great You Own Share Him Another Reveal Greatest His Just Riches Your
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell
Great Debate Argument Doubt Everybody Solution Great Leaders Through Leaders Almost Understand Always Offer Cut Who
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. Winston Churchill
Politics Country Healthy Citizens Greatest Greatest Asset Any Asset
You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy. Colin Powell
You Voting Political Judgment Philosophy Individual Just Agenda Platform
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke
You Judgment Owes Betrays Only Sacrifices He Instead Industry Opinion His Representative Your Serving
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela
Hope Future Suffering Compassion Other Our Learnt How Human Common Human Beings Pity Turn Us Who Beings Binds
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill
Business People Some People Healthy Enough Others Enough People Enterprise See Some Horse Look Tiger Wagon Private Private Enterprise Cow Predatory Regard Shot Milk Pulling
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill
Survival Heart Suffering Draw Shall Inspiration Itself Means
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise Experience Stupid Minds Brute Instinct Instructed Average Reason Necessity
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill
Needs Tomorrow Year Politician Month Ability Week Foretell Going Happen Afterwards Explain Next Next Year Why
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Tool Killer Never Hand Anybody Sword
The press is our chief ideological weapon. Nikita Khrushchev
Our Press Weapon Ideological Chief
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill
Opportunities Difficulties Mastered Won
History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill
History Written Victors
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