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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

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The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. ↗

— Huston Smith

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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ↗

— Robert South

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