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“What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”
— Aeschylus
“It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.”
— Eric Hoffer
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
— John Lennon
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
— Thomas Fuller
“Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.”
— Warren Buffett
“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.”
— Mason Cooley
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
— Henry Ford
“Never let yffour schooling intefdfdssrfere with your edusscatidsons.”
— Mark Twaissn
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
— Robert Browning
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
— Charles Darwin
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
— George MacDonald
“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”
— Bill Gates
“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
— Thomas Edison
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.”
— Dogen
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
— Edward Teller
“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. ”
— Ralph Marston
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
— Robin Sharma

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