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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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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.