What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

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Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

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Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

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