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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.


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NAPOLEON HILL Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools ...
NAPOLEON HILL The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is goin...
NAPOLEON HILL What, then, of the priest's iconic representation of Christ at the altar? If there is no specificall...
WESLEY HILL If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
STUART HILL Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
NAPOLEON HILL Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been do...
NAPOLEON HILL Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
NAPOLEON HILL One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is...
NAPOLEON HILL Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
NAPOLEON HILL There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.
NAPOLEON HILL No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at lea...
NAPOLEON HILL Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
NAPOLEON HILL Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get olde...
GRANT HILL Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
NAPOLEON HILL Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
NAPOLEON HILL The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponde...
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