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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.”
― Tupac Shakur

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated”
― Tupac Shakur

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla

“There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.”
― Jesse Livermore

“The relative frequency of all sympathetic streams is in the ratio 3:6:9. Those whose relative frequencies are 3:9 are mutually attractive, while those having the relation of 6:9 are mutually repellent.”
― John Worrell Keely

“Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”
― Bob Marley

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”
― Henry Rollins

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
― Marie Curie