David McCullough
"Men who achieve greatness, the brothers Mayo were to write in an essay about Gorgas, do not work more complexly than the average man, but more simply... In dealing with complex problems, with the simplicity natural to him he went directly to the point, unaffected by the confusion of details in which a smaller man would have lost himself. At Havana the hopeless task of destroying all mosquitoes was reduced to destroying a particular mosquito; then, once the natural peculiarities of that species were recognized, it was possible to reduce the task further still. The campaign would center on the insect's method of propagation."
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Abu ‘l-Fida
"What cannot be totally known, ought not to be totally neglected; for Knowledge of a Part is better than ignorance of the whole."
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Anthony Trollope
""I'm always out in the open air, and that, I take it, is the best thing for a man. There's nothing like plenty of exercises, certainly.""
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John F. Kennedy
"John F. Kennedy summed up Aristotelian happiness in a single sentence: "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.""
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Min Jin Lee
"A spectacular failure was better than safety. Sabine wanted individuals to honor their greatest ambitions. All superior things—all things worth knowing, possessing, creating, and admiring, she’d observed—had begun with vast, impractical wishes. She hated smallness of character."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Writing of his friend Guillaumet, an intrepid mail pilot, in Wind, Sand and Stars, Saint-Exupéry said that moral greatness derives more from a sense of responsibility than from courage or honesty. "To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.""
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Aristotle
"Real happiness, Aristotle believed, comes from a continuous effort to become the best possible version of yourself."
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