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«Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.»
«Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.»
«The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.»
«Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.»
«The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist»
«The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Thought | Keywords: cry, in the main, main, much as, private
«Self-command is the main discipline.»

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