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“When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.”
― Ben Carson

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979” 
― Nelson Mandela

“The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal. And that we can reach out beyond our differences. If that is not the case, then it is pretty hard for me to make sense of my life.”
― Barack Obama

“Why do i live? In the infinity of space, and infinity of time infinitely small particles mutate with infinite complexity. When you understand the laws of these mutations, you'll understand why you live.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
― Brian Tracy

“The Law of Forced Efficiency says, “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.”
― Brian Tracy

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION!” 
― Napoleon Hill

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“...law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You got the eggs in you; the world is fully ready to celebrate the chicks out of your laying labour. Never give up. Go and breed! Go and breed great dreams.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

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