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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. ”
— Orison Swett Marden
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
— Les Brown
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
— John Lennon
“Darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“There's plenty of money to be made in the center of the court.”
— Warren Buffett
“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
— Aristotle
“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
— Plato
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
— Mark Twain
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Make each day a new horizon.”
— Christopher McCandless
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
— Unknown
“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.”
— Elon Musk
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.”
— Emily Dickinson

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