Confucius: Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints...

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Quote: Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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Winston Churchill
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Never give in -...

Quote: From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
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Rumi
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When you feel a...

Quote: When I have no special problem to occupy my mind, I love to reconstruct proofs of mathematical and physical theorems that have long been known to me. There is no goal in this, merely an opportunity to indulge in the pleasant occupation of thinking.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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Marcus Aurelius
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There is nothing happens...

Quote: To be the same in all circumstances – intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexility.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about...

Quote: I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
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Bruce Lee
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I fear not the...

Quote: Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
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Rumi
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Quote: It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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Winston Churchill
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It is a mistake...

Quote: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
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Winston Churchill
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Quote: Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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George Orwell
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Orthodoxy means not thinking--not...

Quote: God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
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Billy Graham
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God's angels often protect...

Quote: Throw away your books; stop letting yourself be distracted.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An ounce of action...

Quote: You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
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C. S. Lewis
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You are never too...

Quote: I’m an early bird and I’m a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms.
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Michael Scott
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Quote: First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.
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Walt Disney
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Quote: Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.
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Yogi Berra
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Quote: This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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Rumi
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This is love: to...

Quote: Stick to what’s in front of you – idea, action, utterance.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Winston Churchill
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Personally I’m always ready...

Quote: Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: I am happy at the thought that the worst worries are over for my parents.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: The rational animal is consequently also a social animal.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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Confucius
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