It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people. -- Taylor Swift

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton

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the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't ― Henry Ward Beecher

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A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendall Holmes

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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

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Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment. — Marianne Cantwell

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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

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You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley

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Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

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