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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
“Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.”
“We must cultivate our garden. ”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. ”
“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
“Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”
“Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.”
“In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.”
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”
“It's not how much money you make, it's how much money you keep.”
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
“The only way to learn is by doing.”
“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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