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When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#true-to-life #inspirational

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#inspirational-success-failure #motivation #under-the-bright-lights #work-ethic #working-out

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm -- a sliver of light buried in the darkness. ↗

— Norman Ollestad

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He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

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All good things need time, care and patience to come into reality. ↗

— Danielle Barone

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I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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