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Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.

—Frederick Langbridge

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We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

—Charles De Gaulle

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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

—Joseph Conrad

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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

—Saul Bellow

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We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.

—David Assael

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There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.

—Ann Richards

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

—William Shakespeare

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

—Tom Thompson

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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

—Joseph Addison

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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

—Henry James

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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

—Pythagoras

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I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

—Stephanie Klein

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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

—Publilius Syrus

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We are most alive when we're in love.

—John Updike

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