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- One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - )
- The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
- Dr. Smiley Blanton
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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