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“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
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
Ayn Rand
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
Lao Tzu
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell
“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
Carl Sandburg
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl Jung
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Albert Einstein

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