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“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
— Robert Frost
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
— Carl Sagan
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
— Aristotle
“I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.”
— Dalai Lama
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
— Helen Keller
“Peace is its own reward.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
— Maya Angelou
“Success is an iceberg.”
— Unknown
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
— Edwin Land
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde
“20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results.”
— Brian Tracy
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
— Victor Hugo
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.”
— Brian Tracy
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
— Charles Dickens
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
— Peter Drucker
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
— Carl Bard
“Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work.”
— Betty White

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