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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
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Ice T
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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Keri Hulme
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
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Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Bette Davis
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Instead of having 'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions,' and if you got a different 'impression,' so what, can't we all be brothers
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Orison Swett Marden
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
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Woody Allen
We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.
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Luigi Pirandello
You see things and you say 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not'
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Ted Turner
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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