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"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
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"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

"Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create."

"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

"Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?"

"Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death."

"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."

"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."

"America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing."

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
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