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If we only accept universal guidelines for success, and assume they apply to everyone, many people won’t even try. The path is different for every person.

— Jeannette E. South-Paul

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My strategy is to give them those goals, so it allows them to lift their horizon enough so they can navigate around their obstacles.

An obstacle is what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. If you can’t see that goal, all you see are the obstacles

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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