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You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing

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Michael Pritchard

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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom

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H.L. Mencken

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand

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Confucius

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible

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T. E. Lawrence

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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense

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Mignon McLaughlin

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only

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Edgar Allen Poe

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality

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Edgar Allen Poe

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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy

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Edgar Allen Poe

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock

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Thomas Jefferson

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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

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Thomas Paine

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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first

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Harry S Truman

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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination

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Christopher Columbus

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