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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.