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“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

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Author:Margaret Fuller
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“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”

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Book:I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
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“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

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Author:Coretta Scott King
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

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Book:Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings
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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton
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“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

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Author:Alexander Graham Bell
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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

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Author:John D. Rockefeller
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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

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Author:Babe Ruth
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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

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Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
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“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

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Book:No Greater Love
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“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

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Book:An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard
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“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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