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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

—Jawaharlal Nehru

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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

—Margaret Fairless Barber

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

—Warren Buffett

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It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

—Susan Partnow

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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

—Thomas Sowell

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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

—M. C. Richards

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

—Elon Musk

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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

—Lucretius

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If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

—Tina Fey

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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

—Henry George

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

—W. S. Gilbert

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

—Hans Hoffman

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