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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
• Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike… — Rowan Atkinson
• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
• Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster
• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing… — Teresa of Avila
• I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people… — David Axelrod
• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise… — Sai Baba
• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
• In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from… — Charles Babbage
• There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for… — Charles Babbage
• In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges… — Michelle Bachelet

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