"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."

Weitzman, Geri on creation
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me."

Augustine, St. on creation   

"God's first creature, which was light."

Bacon, Francis on creation   

"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adventure   

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on adventure
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"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William on adventure
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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire on adventure
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."

Whitehead, Alfred North on adventure
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on evil
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Jung, Carl on adventure
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"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

Voltaire on wisdom
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"He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage."

Voltaire on courage   

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

Voltaire on courtesy
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"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker."

Voltaire on creation
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

Adenauer, Konrad on humankind
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"A thick skin is a gift from God."

Adenauer, Konrad on determination
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result."

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both"

I Ching on anger
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"Between the anvil and the hammer."

Proverb, German on anger   

"Biggest profits mean gravest risks."

Proverb, Chinese on anger   

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

Shaw, George Bernard on anger   

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on certainty
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"She feared no danger, for she knew no sin."

Dryden, John on sin
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"The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger."

Shakespeare, William on risk
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"The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on sports
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"There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone."

SeVigne, Marquise De on anger
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