"Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on fear
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"I am a part of all that I have met."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on life
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"Every individual is the architect of his own fortune."

Claudius, Appius on fortune   

"The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them."

Caine, Michael on speech
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"Man is what he believes."

Chekhov, Anton on thoughts and thinking   

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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

Blake, William on sorrow
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"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"Wherever the fates lead us let us follow."

Virgil on fate
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"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

Aurelius, Marcus on judgment and judges
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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