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    Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. read more

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton.

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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.

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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be read more

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. thanks to Dana Bidne -William Jennings Bryan.

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There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's read more

There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. -Alan Paton.

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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.

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Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.

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To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene read more

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. . -Eugene Cloutier.

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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon read more

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha.

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