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" The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" A happy family is but an earlier heaven. "

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" All great truths begin as blasphemies. "

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" Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. "

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" My reputation grows with every failure. "

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" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. "

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" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "

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