It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
—Walt Disney
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The best way out is always through.
—Robert Frost, 1914
Where you cannot climb over, you must creep under.
—Danish proverb
Seek, and ye shall find.
—The Bible (Matthew 7:7)
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
—Alfred Tennyson, 1842
Where one door is shut, another opens.
—Spanish proverb
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In the end, there is nothing too remote to be reached, or too well hidden to be discovered.
—René Descartes, 1637
We never stop investigating. […] This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
—Desmond John Morris, 1967
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
—European proverb
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If I have ever done the public any service […], ‘tis due to nothing but industry and a patient
thought.
—Isaac Newton, 1692
He that can have Patience, can have what he will.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1736
Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience.
—George-Louis Leclerc, 1785
There is only one major sin: impatience.
—Franz Kafka, 1917
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As quoted, without a date, by Derek Walter in 1982.
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It is sometimes attributed to Cato, but I could not find a reliable contribution of his authorship.
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