Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. - Steve Jobs

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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. ― Libba Bray

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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. - Ida B. Wells

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Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. — Bonnie Blair

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. ― Marilyn Monroe

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The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before. - John Lewis

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Open your mind before your mouth

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Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my "I," a breathing part of myself. . . . ― Knut Hamsun

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