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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”​

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Thomas A. Edison

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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”​

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Albert Einstein

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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”​

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Walt Disney

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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”​

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Marcus Aurelius

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

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Mark Twain

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“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”​

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Mother Teresa

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”​

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Martin Luther King Jr

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”​

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Helen Keller

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

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Henry Ford

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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

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Benjamin Franklin

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”​

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Confucius

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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Thomas Jefferson

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”​

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Abraham Lincoln

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”​

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”​

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Mahatma Gandhi

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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”

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Helen Keller

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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”​

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Maya Angelou

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”​

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William Shakespeare

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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”​

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Vincent Van Gogh

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

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Mark Twain

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“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

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Thomas Paine

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“In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”

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Mother Teresa

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“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”​

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Albert Einstein

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”​

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Not all those who wander are lost.”​

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

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Oscar Wilde

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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”​

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Bruce Lee

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

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Theodore Roosevelt

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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”​

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

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John F. Kennedy

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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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John F. Kennedy

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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”​

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Ayn Rand

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33
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”​

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Nelson Mandela

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“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”​

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Anne Frank

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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”​

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James Dean

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36
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“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

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Winston Churchill

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“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”​

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J.K. Rowling

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“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”

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Charlie Chaplin

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“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”​

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Muhammad Ali

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40
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“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”​

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Elon Musk

41
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“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”​

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John F. Kennedy:

42
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“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

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William Shakespeare

43
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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

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Plato

44
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

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George Eliot

45
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“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”​

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Oprah Winfrey

46
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“You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at you because you’re all the same.”

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Lady Gaga

47
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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

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Isaac Newton

48
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“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

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Vince Lombardi

49
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

50
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

51
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“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend.”

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Albert Camus

52
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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

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Abraham Lincoln

53
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

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Benjamin Franklin

54
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”​

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George Bernard Shaw

55
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“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

56
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”​

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Eleanor Roosevelt

57
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”​

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Mahatma Gandhi

58
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“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”

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Henry David Thoreau

59
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“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

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Pope John Paul II

60
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“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”​

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Frank Zappa

61
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“In order to write about life first you must live it.”​

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Ernest Hemingway

62
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“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”​

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Steve Jobs

63
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“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”​

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Marilyn Monroe

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“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”​

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Muhammad Ali

65
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“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”​

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Paulo Coelho

66
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“Little by little, one travels far.”​

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J.R.R. Tolkien

67
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”​

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Mark Twain

68
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”​

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John Dalberg-Acton

69
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”​

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George Santayana

70
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”​

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Charlie Chaplin

71
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”​

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Socrates

72
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“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

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Marilyn Monroe

73
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“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

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Thomas Jefferson

74
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“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”​

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Malcolm X

74
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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”​

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Albert Einstein

75
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“God helps those that help themselves.”

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Benjamin Franklin

76
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“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”​

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John Muir

77
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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

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Theodore Roosevelt

78
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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

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Confucius

79
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“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

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John Lennon

80
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Nelson Mandela

81
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

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C.S. Lewis

82
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”​

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Winston Churchill

82
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“The best revenge is massive success.”

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Frank Sinatra

83
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“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

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Vince Lombardi

84
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

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Mother Teresa

85
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

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Steve Jobs

86
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“There never was a good war or a bad peace”​

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Benjamin Franklin

87
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“The only way it gets better for you is when you get better.”​

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Jim Rohn

88
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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

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Henry Ford

89
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

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Mark Twain

90
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

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Plato

91
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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

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Elbert Hubbard

92
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“When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults”​

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Confucius

93
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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”

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Audrey Hepburn

94
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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder”

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Rumi

95
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“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.”​

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Maya Angelou

96
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”​

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Steve Jobs

97
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“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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