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Rule No.1: Never lose money.
Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Variant translation: The seeker after truth must, once in the course of his life, doubt everything, as far as is possible.

René Descartes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

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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.