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“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. ”
— Herodotus
“Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.”
— Samuel Butler
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”
— Judy Garland
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
— David McCullough
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
— Walt Whitman
“I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.”
— Ben Barnes
“Self-control is strength.”
— James Allen
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
— Mark Twain
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.”
— Anonymous
“The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.”
— Michael Jordan
“Justice cannot be served until those who administer it truly understand the value of fairness.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The greatest reward and luxury of life is to be free from anxieties and worries. And the way to get rid of them is by not dwelling on things that are forgotten.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent.”
— Christopher Columbus
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
— Winston Churchill

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