Wise thoughts and quotes 9
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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Douglas Adams
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph Stalin
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.
Khaled Hosseini
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu
