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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used

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Ruin and recovery are both from within. – Epictetus

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Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. – W.N. Rieger

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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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