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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.


- Plautus

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"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

Arthur Koestler 

"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."

- Baltasar Gracian

"A sure way to lose happiness I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."

- Bette Davis

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"Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed."

- Steven Spielberg

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

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"Poetry is nearer to viral truth than history."

- Plato

"Still round the corner there may wait.  A new road or a secret gate."

- Irene Parlby

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"Still round the corner there may wait.  A new road or a secret gate."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism."

- Eva Peron

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"It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone."

- Paul McCartney

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"Life isn't about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself."

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, political activist

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

African American civil rights

and human rights activist

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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour."

- Vince Lombardi

"There is no such thing as a quantum leap.  There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap."

- James Dyson

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"You are braver than you believe, smarter than you seem and stronger than you think."
-Winnie the Pooh
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"Trust your own instinct.  Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

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Oprah Winfrey

"The way you perceive and react to the world is a choice."

David Foster Wallace

  American writer

  University instructor

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

- J.K. Rowling

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"There is nothing sweeter, gentler or softer tan water.  But water has the power to move mountains."

- Claire Bertschinger 

An Anglo-Swiss nurse and advocate on behalf of suffering people in the developing world. Her work in Ethiopia in 1984 inspired Band Aid and subsequently Live Aid, the biggest relief programme ever mounted.

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"Obstacles cannot crush me.  Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.  He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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"When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win."

Steffi Graf

   Stefanie Maria Graf (b. June 14, 1969)

   German professional tennis player

   22 grand slam titles

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"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after is has come down. "

Maria Callas

   b. December 2, 1923 - d. September 16, 1977

     American born Greek soprano

     One of the most renowned and influential opera 

       singers of the 20th century.

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

- Christopher Reeve

September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004

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"No innovation or standard should be rejected as too costly

    without careful evaluation of the "cost of not doing it."

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  - Grace Hopper (December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992)

       American Computer Scientist / United States Navy Rear Admiral

       One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer 

         during the last part of World War II

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"This is the day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years.

 Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything ... One is very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate. It's been able to introduce a few of these into the world.

 An iPod, a phone and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone -- are you getting it?

These are not separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone."

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Steve Jobs

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"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live."

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- Anne Sweeney

   American business woman

   Former co-chair of Disney Media, President of Disney-ABC

     Television Group and President of Disney Channel from 

     1996-2014.

"The harder the conlfict, the more precious the triumph"

Thomas Paine

English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

One of the founding Fathers of the United States.

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"Enthusiasm is the Mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, poet

"STRENGTH DOES NOT COME FROM PHYSICAL CAPACITY.  IT COMES FROM AN INDOMITABLE WILL."

Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948)
Indian Activist, leader of Indian Independence movement.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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