Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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Poems are never finished - just abandoned.

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One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.

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Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

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Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. -Confucius

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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. — Calvin Coolidge

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