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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
— George Orwell
“There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.”
— Rebecca West
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.”
— Donald Knuth
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
— Simon Sinek
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
— Chris Grosser
“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”
— John Lennon
“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
— Denis Waitley
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”
— Plato
“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.”
— Heraclitus
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
— Helen Keller
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
— John Muir
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
— George Eliot
“To earn more you must learn more.”
— Brian Tracy
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
— Jack Kerouac
“Respect is earned by effort not age, all things age without effort.”
— C. Sean McGee
“The happiness and greatness, the rank and station, the pleasure and peace, of an individual have never consistent in his personal wealth, but rather in his excellent character, his high resolve, the breadth of his learning, and his ability to solve difficult problems.”
— Abdu'l-Baha
“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
— Dalai Lama
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
— Plato
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”
— Dogen
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.”
— John Wooden
“Anyone telling you it's pointless to share your perspective is sharing their perspective.”
— Jack Butcher
“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”
— Bodhidharma

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