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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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All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly - A A Gill
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First Post Office Pillar Box - 1852, Manchester Martyrs Hanged - 1867, Launch of the Cutty Sark - 1869, Far from the Madding Crowd Published - 1874, First Royal Command Performance - 1897, Crippen hanged - 1910, First Episode of Doctor Who - 1963, Oxford Circus Tube Fire - 1984
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