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I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12. ↗

— Chuck Norris

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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules. ↗

— Charlize Theron

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