People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.-- George Bernard Shaw

No human being, however great or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.-- John Ruskin

Give me the silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.-- Walt Whitman

If you don't like something - change it. If you can't change it, change the way you look at it.-- Maya Angelou

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.-- Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.-- Thomas Alva Edison

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Albert Einstein

As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.-- John Wheeler

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.-- T. S. Eliot

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.-- Bertrand Russell

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.-- Albert Einstein

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.-- Thomas Jefferson

Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.-- Confucius

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.-- Abraham Lincoln

Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans.-- John Lennon

Be careful while reading health books, you might die of a misprint.-- Mark Twain

Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around sometime, you might miss it.-- Ferris Beuller

Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.-- Mark Twain

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.-- Chinese Proverb

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.-- George Bernard Shaw

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Truth never damages a cause that is just.-- Mahatma Gandhi

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.-- Groucho Marx

Let the sun shine in and chase away your blues. Frowners never win and smilers never lose.-- Pebbles and Bam Bam

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.-- Shakespeare

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.-- Niels Bohr

You say, to me-wards, your affection's strong; pray love me little, so you love me long.-- Robert Herrick

For when that one great scorer comes to mark against your name, he marks not that you won or lost but how you played the game.-- Grantland Rice

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.-- Galileo Galilei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-- Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.-- Alan Kay

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