"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."

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"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"I take refuge in my books."

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"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."

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"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community."

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"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."

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"How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society."

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"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."

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"Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions."

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"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."

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"God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature."

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"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."

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