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“When pundits and strategists claim "attack ads work," they mean it in the most cynical of terms. As Ipsos Reid researcher Andrew Grenville told the Vancouver Sun: "Attacks ads can often work in the short term. They can give you a short boost. But they reduce the number of people who want to vote. They reduce participation in the democratic process. They poison the system.”
― Elizabeth May

“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”
― Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

“Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.”
― Russell H. Conwell

“Abraham Lincoln's principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This was his rule: Whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and held it all there until that was all done.”
― Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

“We must know what the world needs first and then invest ourselves to supply that need, and success is almost certain.”
― Russell H. Conwell

“One of the greatest gifts you can give is
your undivided attention.”
― Oprah Winfrey