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"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."

By Cervantes, The Impossible Dream

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"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."

By Thomas Neil

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"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."

By Gary Wills

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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."

By Stewart B. Johnson

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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

By A. A. Milne

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"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."

By Robert Burton

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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."

By Albert Einstein, On Education

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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

By John F. Kennedy

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"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

By George Eliot

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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

By Denis Diderot

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"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."

By Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)

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"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."

By John Dykes

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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

By Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

By Will Rogers

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"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

By Jean Giraudoux

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"Only sick music makes money today."

By Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner, Section 5

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"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

By Lewis Mumford

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"Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack."