"We used to build civilizations. Now we build…" — Bill Bryson

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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• Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac
• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
• If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us… — Joey Adams
• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't… — Bernard Baruch
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. — Simone de Beauvoir

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