"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
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"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
"And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?"
"The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'."
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."
"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
"In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."
"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
"Thou art the Mars of malcontents."
"It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable."
"Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."
"I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want."
"If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else."
"It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed."