Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

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I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ― Walter Tevis

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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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We are all born mad. Some remain so. ― Samuel Beckett

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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. — Angela Davis

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ― Booker T. Washington

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In this world of Maya, nothing is permanent, not even our pain and suffering. ― Shree Shambav

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien

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