My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me. — Jim Valvano

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw

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Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending. —Chico Xavier

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. ― George Bernard Shaw

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I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential. — Nicki Minaj

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Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ― George Bernard Shaw

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