Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ― Winston Churchill

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. ― Auguste Escoffier

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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

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The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ― John F. Kennedy

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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

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