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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Socrates
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
Linus Torvalds
“The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.”
Naval Ravikant
“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”
Bill Gates
“Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.”
— Nido Qubein
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.”
Brian Eno
“A hut full of laughter is richer than a palace full of sadness.”
Zen Proverb
“The reward of suffering is experience.”
Harry S. Truman
“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
Voltaire
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.”
Deepak Chopra
“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
Harry S. Truman
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Don't criticize what you can't understand. ”
Bob Dylan
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
Virginia Woolf
“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.”
— Tom Landry
“Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
Robin Sharma
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
George Orwell
“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
Criss Jami
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
Mother Teresa
“Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.”
Joan Rivers

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