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      All the world’s great have been little boys who wanted the moon.

      Cup of Gold (1929)

      John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968)

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      Whether our efforts are, or not, favoured by life, let us be able to say when we come near the great goal, “I have done what I could”.

      Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist (1822–1895)

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      I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

      Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

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      All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

      Mark Twain, American writer (1835–1910)

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      To live at all is miracle enough.

      Mervyn Peake, English writer (1911–1968)

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      In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

       Pensées et fragments inédits

      Montesquieu, French political philosopher (1689–1755)

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      The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

      New England Reformers (1844)

      Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, essayist and philosopher (1803–1882)

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      The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

      Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (1709–1784)

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      I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

      Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (1709–1784)

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      It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

      Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer (1919–2008)

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      We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

      Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902–1994)

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      All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

      [Letter to JG Lockhart, 1830]

      Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (1771–1832)

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      My mountain did not seem to me a lifeless thing of rock and ice, but warm and friendly and living.

      She was a mother hen, and the other mountains were chicks under her wings.

      Man of Everest (1955)

      Tenzing Norgay, Nepali Sherpa mountaineer (1914–1986)

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      Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

      Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847–1931)

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      Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

      Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847–1931)

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      It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

      Tom Lehrer, American humourist and singer-songwriter (1928–)

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      Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

      The Family Reunion (1939)

      TS Eliot, English-American poet, critic and dramatist (1888–1965)

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      In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

      International Herald Tribune (1988)

      Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher, writer and professor of semiotics (1932–2016)

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      Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

      Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853–1890)

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      I felt as if I was walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.

      [On becoming prime minister during the Second World War]

      Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of the UK, historian and Nobel Prize winner (1874–1965)

ACTING AND DRAMA

      Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.

      Sir Noël Coward, English playwright (1899–1973)

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      Television has brought back murder into the home — where it belongs.

      Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (1899–1980)

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      If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.

      Teatr i iskusstvo (1904)

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