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“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.”
― Barry Eisler

“Acheron: It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often than not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“Not just starting marathons but actually finishing them...(no matter how long it takes) will always lead to making a better you.”
― Timothy Pina

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“الجنة و النار هما في ذات نفسك”
― عمر الخيام

“I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

“There's no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
― Horace Mann

“Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent:
Identify It,
Hire It,
Nurture It,
Reward It,
Protect It.
And when the time comes, Fire It.”
― Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.”
― Bill Strickland

“the choices we make dictate the life we lead”
― Danny De Vito

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
― Coco Chanel

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
― Coco Chanel