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“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
— Herbert Hoover
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
— Mother Teresa
“If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.”
— Ferrell Sims
“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
— Francis Bacon
“Just trust that everything is unfolding the way it is supposed to. Don't resist... Great things are waiting for you around the corner.”
— Sonia Ricotti
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
— Scott Westerfeld
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
— Gilbert Chesterton
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Growth comes at the point of resistance.”
— Josh Waitzkin
“Nullius in verba”
— Anonymous
“Words can only have a positive effect on others if and when they are ready to listen.”
— Christopher Reeve
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Tina Turner
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
— Walt Whitman
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little. ”
— Zig Ziglar
“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”
— Ray Bradbury
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
— Frank Herbert
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
— Voltaire
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
— Helen Keller
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
— Buddha

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