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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

—Laozi

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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

—Jean-Luc Godard

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

—Edmund Burke

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

—William Faulkner

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People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

—Baltasar Gracián

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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

—Socrates

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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

—Socrates

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The best revenge is massive success.

—Frank Sinatra

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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

—Everett Dirksen

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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

—J. M. Barrie

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

—Maimonides

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

—Reggie Leach

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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

—George Eliot

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