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  In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

  Mike Tyson

  Order, Succeed, Problem

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Challenges

  "Michelle Obama: Team Effort Needed to Halt Childhood Obesity". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 8, 2010.

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• As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

  Brandon Routh

  Thinking, Different, Way

  "Brandon Routh for “Superman Returns”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• You play all your life and train all your life and then you are not playing. It's not easy to deal with. But you can't roll up in a ball and hope it goes away. You have to take it on the chin and train hard and be prepared to play. We all know the game changes in an instant and anything can happen so you have to keep the hope that comes your way.

  Shay Given

  Train Hard, Games, Play

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• You must be prepared and know the
  reason why you dance.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Reason Why, Knows, Reason

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.179, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

  Arthur Wallis

  Israel, Ahab, Pathways

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• Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

  Todd Park

  Technology, Opportunity, Skills

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• Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pay The Price, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

  Herbert Hoover

  Pistols, Prepared

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Parent, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I still think about the time when I was fighting for my first real big fight against [Marco Antonio] Barrera back in 2002. I know he can come in thinking that he has nothing to lose, and that's why I have to be aware of that.Always be prepared.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I will talk about it on Monday. I will answer every one of their questions. I always feel nervous when I have to go to court. This is like going to court. But I will be prepared.

  Zulima Farber

  Monday, Answers, Nervous

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• To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

  Paul Krugman

  Sacrifice, Past, Skills

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Player, Analogies, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.838, Xist Publishing

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• When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, May, Fortitude

  Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117

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• Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

  E. O. Wilson

  Frustration, Waste, Chaos

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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• The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  World, Vexation, Eternity

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1863). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.95

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• Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.

  Ernst Rohm

  Men, Hands, Years

  Ernst Rohm's address to Kurt Ludecke (January 1934), as quoted in H. Paul Jeffers "History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World", August 1, 2004.

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• There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got to be prepared to turn There are callouses that come That the lovers got to earn In the years of your youth You can't be fire proof You know you've got to get burned.

  Harry Chapin

  Fire, Years, Lessons

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Deception, Use, Crafts

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• If you want to make it as a sportsperson - Become knowledgeable in the sport you want to participate in. Think about the sport and what it can offer in its entirety. You shouldn't want to become a professional sportsperson because of the money. There's a lot more to gain from being involved in sport. Work hard to get what you want. If it's your ambition, go for it. You don't have to be the best in the world to make it as an elite athlete. You need to be a grafter and be prepared to sacrifice.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Athlete, Ambition

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Heart, Optimistic

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• ..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Mean, Ideas, Bullshit

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• To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Virtue, Crime

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• Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.

  Chris Kyle

  War, Fighting, Winning

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