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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.”
Maya Angelou
“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.”
Nelson Mandela
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”
— Mr. Cristen Schmeler
“You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.”
Steve Harvey
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
Criss Jami
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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.”
— Brian Kernighan
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
John Lennon
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
— Charlotte Brontë
“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.”
William Faulkner
“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. ”
Brian Tracy
“Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
Eric Hoffer
“Everybody by your side ain't on your side.”
Steve Harvey
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
Paulo Coelho
“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.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“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.”
Confucius
“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
Martin Luther
“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.”
T. S. Eliot
“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.”
— Henry Hazlitt

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