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- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
- John Irving (1942 - )
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
- It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture
- Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
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