If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Shakespeare
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
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I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
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The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space.
Immanuel Kant
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
George Orwell
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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Christopher Hitchens
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
