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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Winston Churchill Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays ... the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • William James A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Seneca A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Georges Bataille A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Robin George Collingwood A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Confucius A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • John Keats A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's what he thinks about all day long
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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