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"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement."

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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

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"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pine on immortality
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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Lincoln, Abraham on life
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"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy on adversity
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