The difference between the ‘almost right’ word and the ‘right’ word is really a large matter … ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

Compassion

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

Teamwork

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

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"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge