If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. — Michelangelo

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Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you

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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ― Oscar Wilde

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A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.- Alexis de Tocqueville

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Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame. -B arry Humphries

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