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Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great. - Orison Swett Marden
The zest for life of those unusual men and women
who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to
the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of
others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of
their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the
dense delalys of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic
obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without
suffering punctures in their stomach lining. - Edward Hoagland
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