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“If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.” — Stephen Hawking

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“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.” — Winston Churchill

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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle

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“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” — Gautama Buddha

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” — Josh Billings

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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The stone age came to an end not for lack of stones. And the oil age will come to an end not for lack of oil.” — Sheikh Yamani

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“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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