A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. ― Malcolm X

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ― Helen Keller

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The world is full of actors pretending to be human

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. — Pat Riley

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One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

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If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

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