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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton Wilder

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder

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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. – Mother Teresa

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Dont knock your friends. Dont knock your enemies. Dont knock yourself. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that wont work. – Thomas A. Edison

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. – Aneurin Bevan

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Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others expectations can be avoided. – Tina Weymouth

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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. – Oliver Goldsmith

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