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If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch ↗

— أحمد عمارة

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ↗

— Thomas Edison

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What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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When you get mad, it's the time you lose ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

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I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky. ↗

— Sherri L. Smith

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If you don't appreciate her, you don't deserve her. ↗

— Robert Tew

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence ↗

— John B. Gough

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Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ... ↗

— Hart Crane

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