"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
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"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
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"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
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"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."
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"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
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"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
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"If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being."
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"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!"
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"True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded."
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
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"Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"
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"Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."
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"Do one thing every day that scares you."
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"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
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