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  • Walter Benjamin The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person hears only what they understand.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Cato the Elder An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Aristotle Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Gore Vidal A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Plutarch Character is simply habit long continued.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • André Maurois If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • William Shakespeare What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mae West A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Walt Disney All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
    Source: How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004)
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Umberto Eco A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Epictetus Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Publilius Syrus A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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