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“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
John F. Kennedy
“I constantly look up words and meanings in search of the perfect variable, method, and class names.”
— David Heinemeier Hansson
“A path is made by walking on it.”
Zhuangzi
“Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working.”
Bhagavad Gita
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
Mark Manson
“Forever is composed of now's.”
Emily Dickinson
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
— Unknown
“Failure is acceptable. Not trying is a whole different ball park.”
Michael Jordan
“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
Samuel Butler
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”
Benjamin Franklin
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
Carl Jung
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”
Zig Ziglar
“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time.”
Barack Obama
“These aren't the droids you're looking for.”
— Obi-Wan Kenobi
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
Khalil Gibran
“Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.”
Brian Tracy
“Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.”
— Walter Lippmann
“Failure is feedback. Learn from it and move on.”
Jack Butcher
“A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.”
Publilius Syrus
“The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race.”
— Unknown
“To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.”
Zhuangzi
“No man can walk out on his own story.”
— Spirit of the West

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