Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ― John F. Kennedy

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters turning into walking dead. ("Terra incognita" ) ― Erik Pevernagie

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ― Helen Keller

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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. — Nelson Mandela

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