Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri

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the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

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True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts. — Mia Hamm

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Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. — Ava DuVernay

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We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. — Whoopi Goldberg

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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge. Albert Einstein

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ― Epictetus

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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. — bell hooks

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa

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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. ― Al-Fudhayl ibn Iyyadh

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