The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell: their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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What resistance I have left within me, I lose each time you're holding me this close.
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To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice: it wears the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal: nay, continued disguises are too great a constraint; men would leave off their vices rather than undergo the toil of practising them in private.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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