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“Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?”
Albert Einstein

“Jim Sundberg says, “Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.”
John C. Maxwell

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done. "And how well things were going up till now! how well we got on! She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked. It's true it's bad HER having been a governess in our house. That's bad! There's something common, vulgar, in flirting with one's governess. But what a governess!" (He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.) "But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already... it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?”
Leo Tolstoy

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
C.S. Lewis

“He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.”
C.S. Lewis

“Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander still.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
Mother Teresa

“Fino ad oggi gli uomini e le loro opere sono stati un flagello per i pianeti. La natura reagisce ai flagelli: li elimina o li assorbe per incorporarli nel suo sistema.”
Frank Herbert

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”
C.S. Lewis

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
John C. Maxwell

“God smiles when I trust him.”
Rick Warren

“We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.” 
Ben Carson

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.”
Thomas Jefferson

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