Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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