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  Quotes from Famous People
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry Thoreau
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby

 Notes:
 1. Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977.
 2. Bill Cosby: actor/comedian, born July 12, 1937, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the most influential performers of
  the second half of the 20th century.

 3. Henry Thoreau, writer and thinker, lived in the 19th century from 1817-1862. Although he was regarded
  as unimportant during his lifetime, his writings have been a large influence on the 20th century.

 4 seduce v. 引诱,诱使,怂恿

 
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