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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Human nature is above all things lazy.
    Household Papers and Stories (1864) Ch. 6
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Arsenio Hall I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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  • James Cash Penney I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Damon Runyon I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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  • Bob Hope I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have wondered about time all my life.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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  • Audie Murphy I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Will Rogers I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Iris Murdoch I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • W. Clement Stone I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Joseph Addison I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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