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"The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she's right."

"You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope."

"Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world !"
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"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."


"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."


"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."


"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."


"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."


"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."


"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."


"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."
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