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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. 
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. 
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses 
Animals are not humans with reduced capacities. They have their own capacities, their own spectrum of aptitudes and behaviors. 
The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder 
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are 
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something 
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight 
Life has meaning only in the struggle.Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods.So let us celebrate the struggle 
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. 
Wisdom is knowing who deserves a second chance. Courage is knowing the next time will be the last time. 
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery 
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing 
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. 
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. 
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven?t planted 
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. 
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many 
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. 
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. 
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. 
The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess 
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him 
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. 
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment 
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners 
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? 
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are. 
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. 
Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. 
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. 
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. 
The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit. 
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. 
Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision. 
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. 
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 
