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Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power. ↗

— Newton Lee

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Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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We are all only men, defined by our choices. ↗

— I.E. Castellano

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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origins in the ecstasies which might have been. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

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Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life. (as said by Mrs. Pearson) ↗

— Adam Gopnik

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It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'. ↗

— Gasmaskman

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The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! ↗

— Dew Platt

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I do, I am ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed? ↗

— Christopher Brennan

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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