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

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow... the coup de grâce for the painter as well as for the picture.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

Bertrand Russell

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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.