Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

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But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way. - Gene Robinson

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History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.- Marsha P. Johnson

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Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges. — Penny Streeter

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. ― Kurt Cobain

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —Mark Twain

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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Never laugh at live dragons.

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Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.- Binyavanga Wainaina

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