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“Good lives

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are made so by discipline.” - Sophocles

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“It all comes

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down to the big D : D for discipline.” - Mrs. Asselta

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“More things are

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wrought by prayer than this world will ever know.” - St. Thomas

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“I’ve never known a man

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worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for, needs the discipline.” - Vince Lombardi

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“Know

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thyself.” - Sophocles

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“Knowledge makes

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a bloody entry.” - St. Thomas Aquinas

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“The educated differ

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from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” - Aristotle

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“Nothing great was

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ever achieved without enthusiasm.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9
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“Speak not for the

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fool’s hearing, he will despise the wisdom of your words.” - Proverbs

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10
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“Beauty is

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truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” - John Keats

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“Character can not

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be developed in ease in quiet, only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Hellen Keller

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“If you tell

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the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” - Mark Twain

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13
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“Careful of your

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enemies, they point out your faults.”

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14
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“Only the truly

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disciplined is free.”

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15
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“Preach the

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gospel, use words if necessary.” - St. Thomas

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16
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“Criticize a concited

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man and he will hate you for it. Criticize a wize man and he will respect you for it.” - Proverbs

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“Gratitude is not only

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the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all virtues.” - Cicero

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18
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“Art imitates

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life.” - Aristotle

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19
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“We are what

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we repeatedly do, excellence then is a habit.”

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20
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“One of the marvels of

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personality is it’s resistance to prediction. One man’s paralysing trauma is another man’s invitation to take control of his life. One woman’s grounds for insanity is another woman’s goad to a dramatic shaping of the self.” - Roselyn Brown

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21
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“The way of the sluggard

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is hemmed with thorns, the path of the diligent is a highway.” - Proverbs

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22
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“A man is three

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persons : the person he thinks he is, the person others think he is, and the person God knows he is.” - Samuel Johnson

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23
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“If it is to

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be it is up to me.”

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24
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“If you lack

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confidence, pretend and it will come.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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25
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“There is no greater courage

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than to bear defeat without giving up.”

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26
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“There is no success

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without hardship.” - Sophocles

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27
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“This thing we call

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failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

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28
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“What’s difficult,

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we do it once. What’s impossible, we take longer.” - Herman Wolk

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29
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“Life ends,

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art is forever.” - Keats

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30
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“Experience the most

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brutal of teachers, but you learn … do you learn?” - C. S. Lewis

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31
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“Seek not to

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understand that you may believe, but seek to believe that you may understand.” - St. Augustine

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32
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“I didn’t do the

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best possible job, but I did the best that I could do, and therefore I couldn’t have done any better.” - Ronald Reagen

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33
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“Procrastination is

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the thief of time.” - Martin Luther King

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34
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“I must be cruel

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only to be kind.” - William Shakespeare

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“A person is as big

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as the thing that makes him angry.” - Winston Churchhill

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“Do the best

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you can, and pray that God will give you the strength to do what you cannot.” - St. Augustine

37
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“The eyes are

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the windows of the soul.” - John Dunn

38
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“Things are never

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so bad that there isn’t a solution or the solution is accepting the problem.” - Churchhill

39
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“Do the thing you

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fear and death of fear is certain.” - Emerson

40
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“Life is not easy.

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It calls for Spartan endurance.” - Tennessee Williams

41
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“If you think you

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can’t, you won’t.” - James Allen

42
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“Whether you think

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you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” - Henry Ford

43
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“Men are masters

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of their own fate.” - Shakespeare

44
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“We do what we have

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to do so we can do what we want to do.”

45
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“Be wary then,

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best safety lies in fear.”

46
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“The aparell

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‘oft proclaims the man.”

47
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“When the blood burns,

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how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”

48
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“Give thy thoughts

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no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act.”

49
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“Give every man thy

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ear, but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgement.”

50
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“Neither a borrower nor

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a lender be, for loan ‘oft loses both itself it friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

51
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“This above all

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to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day. Thou can’st not then be false to any man.”

52
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“It is common

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for the younger sort to lack discretion.”

53
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“Brevity

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is the soul of wit.”

54
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“Nothing either good

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or bad but thinking makes it so.”

55
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“When a piece of work is a man,

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how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and and admirable, in action how like an angel, in aprehension like a god.”

56
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“To be honest

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as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

57
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“I must be cruel

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only to be kind.”

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“Rich gifts

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wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

59
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“For some must watch

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while some must sleep. So runs the world away.”

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“For use almost

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can change the stamp of nature.”

61
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“Thus the native

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hue is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”

62
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“When sorrows

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come they come not in single spies but in battalians.”

63
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“We know what we

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are but not what we may be.”

64
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“A knavish

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speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”

65
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“Rightly to be great

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is not to stir without great argument but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honor’s at the stake.”

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“Good night sweet

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prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

67
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“Cat will

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mew, and dog will have his day.”

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“To know even one life

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has been made easier because you have lived, this is success.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Happiest people do not

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get the best of everything, they make the best of everything.”

70
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“The only failure

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is not to try.”

71
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“It is not in the stars

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to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” - Shakespeare

72
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“Manners easily

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and rapidly mature into morals.”

73
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“Circumstances don’t

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make a man, they reveal him.” - James Allen

74
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“To you know you don’t

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know is the beginning of wisdom.” - Plato

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“Experience is a hard

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teacher : she gives the test first and the lessons afterward.” - C. S. Lewis

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“Make it thy buisiness to know

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thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” - De Cervantes from Don Quixote

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“If you change the way you

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look at things, the things you look at change.”

78
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“You are only as happy

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as you choose to be.” - Abe Lincoln

79
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“In the confrontation

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between the rock and the stream, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through perserverence.” - Buddha

80
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“We make a living

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by what we do. We make a life by what we give.” - Winston Churchill

81
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“Remember this hour

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of this day. This is the most important hour and day in this lifetime. The past can not be altered, but this time determines eternity.” - Emerson

82
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“If a man is called to be a

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streetsweeper, he should sweep streets as Michaelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music, or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”” - Martin Luther King

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“A pessimist sees

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the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Churchill

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“Insanity is

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repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome.” - Einstein

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