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" The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. "

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" If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. "

" The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. "

" If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. "

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" It is only in our decisions that we are important. "

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" The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. "

" We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. "

" To be is to be the value of a variable. "

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" Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. "

" I shut my eyes in order to see. "

" At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is. "

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" I do not seek. I find. "

" If not me, who? And if not now, when? "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. "

" Fortune favors the prepared mind. "

" It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. "

" We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. "

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" Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. "

" I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying. "

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" True greatness consists in being great in little things. "

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" The mind cannot foresee its own advance. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. "

" One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. "

" The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. "

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" Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. "

" Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. "

" Life is but thought. "

" There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. "

" The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. "

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