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“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
— Gabor Mate
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
— Charles Darwin
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
— George Orwell
“Fairness is what justice really is.”
— Potter Stewart
“Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.”
— C. Sean McGee
“When your intuition is strong, follow it.”
— Lolly Daskal
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?.”
— Lester Gibson
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.”
— Walter Chrysler
“Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”
— Thomas Moore
“You can't get to a place that you don't believe exists.”
— Unknown
“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one elses. So the path has to be your own.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
— Plato
“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.”
— Mao Gusikowski
“Every drop in the ocean counts. ”
— Yoko Ono
“The best dreams happen when you're awake.”
— Cherie Gilderbloom
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
— Euripides
“Time is never wasted, when you’re wasted all the time.”
— Anonymous
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Unity is strength, division is weakness.”
— Swahili Proverb

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