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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.” — Robert Frost

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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” — Carl Sagan

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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.” — Plutarch

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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.” — Julia Child

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“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” — Ambrose Bierce

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