So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. - Voltaire

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What would I advise an aspiring young entrepreneur? Certainly I'd say read the works of great entrepreneurs and investors like Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and many others. But what's more important is to get real experience at a great startup. - Joe Lonsdale

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The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day. ― Daniel Willey

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. - Voltaire

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The most important thing in the world is family and love. – John Wooden

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What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

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Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

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