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“Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!”
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color.”
“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“No matter how much preparation we do, in the real tests of our lives, we'll be in unfamiliar terrain.”
“It's just a bad day, not a bad life.”
“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
“The only way round is through.”
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
“Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”
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