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  • Samuel Butler Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir Hugh Walpole Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
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  • Samuel Johnson Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Schultz Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Anais Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Lillian Smith Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Nelson Mandela Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
    Source: Speech university Johannesburg (16-07-2003)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • George Orwell Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour Enthusiasm moves the world.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Bill Drayton Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bing Gordon Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Martin Luther Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.
    Source: Civilization in Transition (1964)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bobby Short Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
    Bobby Short
     
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  • Bode Miller Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Billie Jean King Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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