Oscar Wilde: I don’t want to be at the mercy...

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Quote: Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
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Quote: Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
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Yogi Berra
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Quote: The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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Quote: I am not very satisfied with my theory of thermoelectricity.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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Quote: Forget how much it hurts and try again.
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Quote: When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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Quote: Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge
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Winston Churchill
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Quote: So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.
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Quote: What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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Quote: In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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George Orwell
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Quote: It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Quote: A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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Quote: A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. -
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Billy Graham
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Quote: I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Quote: Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.
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Quote: Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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Quote: Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
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Quote: The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned – to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretention.
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Quote: Have I done something for the common good? Then I share in the benefits. To stay centered on that. Not to give up.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Quote: A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
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Quote: There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
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