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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Carl Sandburg

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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

William Golding

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Mark Twain

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Hippocrates

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Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Jules Renard

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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

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Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

John Wooden

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Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Stendhal

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No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Julius Caesar

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The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Og Mandino

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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

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