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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man is the son of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. – Rachel Carson

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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. – Simone Weil

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any if or but. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. – John Burroughs, Journal

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I know what its like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. – Mitt Romney

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