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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”
“You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.”
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. ”
“Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
“Everybody by your side ain't on your side.”
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.”
“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
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