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“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Roald Dahl

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

“There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.”
― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle

“Wit is educated insolence.”
― Aristotle

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
― Aristotle

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

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

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights