The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality … - Eddie Rickenbacker

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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

Eddie Rickenbacker

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Character, Cornerstones, Imagination, Independence, Structure

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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through. "

Inspiration, Leadership, Success, Things, Think, Thinking

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

Believe, Demise, Humble, Positive Thinking, Richer, Secure

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

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What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know. The girl has no knowledge of what her eyes reflect. Thank God for that. Niko hated to think of the education she might have just gotten otherwise.

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Laura Hillenbrand

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

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Ron Paul

Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

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H. L. Mencken

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

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