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'Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.'

'Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.'

'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'

'The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.'

'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'

'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. - Harold Pinter
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St Augustine Introduces Julian Calendar to England - 0597, William the Conqueror crowned - 1066, Domesday Book Commissioned - 1085, First Christmas Tree in Britain - 1800, Mrs Beeton Published - 1861, End of the Soviet Union - 1991
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