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“If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers.”
― Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth