The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ― Helen Keller

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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. — Nelson Mandela

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Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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