One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. —Winston Churchill

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Will Durant

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