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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Sometimes misquoted in the form: [...] to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

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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.