When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have. - Reinhold Messner

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.- John Wooden

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It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston Churchill

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