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“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.”
“What is grief, if not love persevering?”
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“I would have girls and boys learn the same things, dress the same, and have the same manners.”
“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.”
“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”
“Open your mind before your mouth.”
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
“The wiser you get, the less you care to look like a fool.”
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
“The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts, it's to stop letting them control you.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“Desire is suffering.”
“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”
“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
“The businessman's tool is value.”
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