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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
— Francis Bacon
“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
“Progress is not possible without mortgage on our future; to purchase an education we have to pawn our tomorrow.”
— Havelock Ellis
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
— Confucius
“The truth is not for all men, but for those who seek it.”
— Ayn Rand
“The greatest happiness some men obtain is that of compelling others to do what they like to do themselves.”
— Laurence Sterne
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity.”
— Earl Nightingale
“You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ”
— Jack London
“Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.”
— Dogen
“We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.”
— Dave Barry
“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.”
— William Blake
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.”
— Dale Carnegie
“There exists only the present instant; a Now which always and without end is itself new.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
— Epictetus
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
— Jim Rohn
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
— Steve Jobs
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
— Carl Jung
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
— Will Rogers
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Kahlil Gibran

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