Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. - Andrew Carnegie

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender. — Mariah Carey

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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

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For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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No one is any more or any less important than you are. - Marianne Williamson

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela

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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

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