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- It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.
- Samahria Lyte Kaufman
- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
- Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
- W. Lee Grant
- Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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