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“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
— John F. Kennedy
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.”
— Alfred Adler
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The friendship that can cease has never been real. ”
— St. Jerome
“Where law ends, tyranny begins.”
— William Pitt the Elder
“And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
— Franklin Block
“Learn to sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction.”
— Unknown
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
— Mr. Regena Daniel
“Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.”
— William Feather
“In my mind's eye.”
— Kelley Toy
“Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“We don't want that much failure.”
— Charlie Munger
“Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
— James Allen
“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.”
— Herman Melville
“If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.”
— Buddha
“Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.”
— Abu Bakr

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