Arthur C. Clarke
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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James Freeman Clarke
"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."
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Benjamin Spock
"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all."
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Francis Bacon
"If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them."
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Joseph Joubert
"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."
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Aristotle
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
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Anton Chekhov
"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given."
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Sir Winston Churchill
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas or oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. - speaking in the House of Commons on British resistance to the Nazis, June 1940"
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Francois Fenelon
"We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs."
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