“The soul that has no fixed goal loses itself; for as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
Michel de Montaigne, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
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Will Rogers, quoted in the United Press International
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Jane Fonda, quoted in the New York Post
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Bette Davis, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald
