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“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
— Eric Hoffer
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
— Og Mandino
“Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.”
— St. Jerome
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
— Tom Stoppard
“Life is but one dream flowing into another.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“I’m no genius, but I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.”
— Thomas J. Watson
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“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

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