"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
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"Knowledge is power."
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"This above all; to thine own self be true."
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
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"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe."
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"Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success."
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
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"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
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"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
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"Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost."
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"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals."
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"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."
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"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."
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"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."
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