"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."
-Jonathan Swift
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"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.“
-Jonathan Swift
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"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
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"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right."
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"Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success."
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"It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports."
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"Fame and success are very different things."
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"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts."
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