Once a man gets a fixed idea, there’s nothing to be done.
– Anton Chekhov
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- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. – Benazir Bhutto
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- I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. – Barbara T Cerny
- The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. – Charles ens
- If they say, it can’t be done, Ask, -˜Why not?’ It can be done. It will be done! – Lailah Gifty Akita
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- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister
- …remember that what has once been done may be done again. – Alexandre Dumas
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- There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid. – Lisa Gardner