"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."

Sand, George on Death and Dying
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"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on Misfortunes
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on Genius
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

Maugham, W. Somerset on Beauty
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on Friends and Friendship
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on Farewells
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Ability
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on Ability
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on Ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on Ability
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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Achievement
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on Dreams
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"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."

Voltaire on Questions
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on Prejudice
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."

Voltaire on Doctors
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"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on Will and Will Power
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on Effort
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"Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate."

Kennedy, John F. on Fear
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"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."

Kennedy, John F. on Happiness
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"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."

Kennedy, John F. on Human Spirit
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"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

Kennedy, John F. on Humankind
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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on Ambition
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"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on Hatred
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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on Airplane and Aviation
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on Humankind
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Adams, Douglas on Mystery
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

Adams, Douglas on Challenges
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"The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register."

Ionesco, Eugene on Universe
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on Dreams
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