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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

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Immature love says: "I love you because I need you". Mature love says "I need you because I love you".

Erich Fromm

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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Eugene Delacroix

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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Sun Tzu

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Where there is no property there is no injustice.

John Locke

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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Mark Twain

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There are three faithful friends — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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