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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Helen Keller

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The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

- John F Kennedy, 35th US President

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"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."

Niccolo Machiavelli

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'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.

Joseph Addison 1672-1719: Cato (1713)

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Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.

- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.

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"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil."

-Bible

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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

Jacob Braude

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

Matt Groening

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"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

Will Rogers

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''A small rock holds back a great wave.''

Homer