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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

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The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

Morihei Ueshiba

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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Thucydides

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Aristotle

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Anatole France

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Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

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