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“I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.”
— Lev Grossman
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. ”
— W. Clement Stone
“In spite of everything, I shall rise again.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.”
— Dan Millman
“The stone age came to an end not for lack of stones. And the oil age will come to an end not for lack of oil.”
— Sheikh Yamani
“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
— D. H. Lawrence
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
— Socrates
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“Compassion is the radical act of refusing to do nothing when another person's life is not okay; it is judgmentally saying, 'This is not acceptable', and doing something about it.”
— Lama Surya Das
“We don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.”
— Kamal Ravikant
“Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.”
— Steve Jobs
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
— Mark Twain
“Never complain and never explain.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Force has no place where there is need of skill. ”
— Herodotus
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
— Gilbert Chesterton
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
— Voltaire
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
— Mwai Kibaki
“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”
— Kenneth Branagh
“Be where your enemy is not.”
— Sun Tzu
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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