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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
– Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727)
Do not crown yourself. Let others do it. Do not allow others to remove your crown. Do it yourself.
- Mr Ee Teck Ee, writing in the Straits Times Forum Page on 12 Feb 09
My country did not send me seven thousand miles to start this race. My country sent me to finish.
- John Steven Aquari of Tanzania,who completed a marathon in the 1968 games in Mexico City, when asked by a reporter why he did not quit after sustaining a bad fall early in the race
... it is not about the time we take to reach our destination, but the triumph of reaching there in the end.
- teacher Heng Kai Le
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
- Bernard M. Baruch
