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Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Wilferd Peterson

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The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
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I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me.
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Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.
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Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: Believe that you have it and you have it.
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