The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. — Confucius

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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

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When you don’t cultivate your own sensuality, you won’t have much to offer in your relationship(s) especially in the long-run. ― Lebo Grand

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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. — Winston Churchill

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Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

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