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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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When ambition ends, happiness begins. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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I have reached a limit in my work. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

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In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. ↗

— Lionel Messi

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I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone. ↗

— Lionel Messi

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I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. ↗

— Lionel Messi

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Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. ↗

— Tom Metzger

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