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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Quoted by Beauvoir as the watchword of the new feminism

Simone de Beauvoir

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

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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.