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“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
— Colin Powell
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
— Aristotle
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If I can laugh, I can live.”
— Christopher Reeve
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want success faster, double your rate of failure.”
— Brian Tracy
“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”
— Samuel Butler
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Nature abhors annihilation.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
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“We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation.”
— Warren Buffett
“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Live simply, expect little, give much.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
— William Shakespeare
“Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”
— Harry S. Truman
“Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”
— Barack Obama
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Common sense is not so common. ”
— Voltaire
“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”
— Winston Churchill
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
— Honore de Balzac

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