"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
-Epictetus
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"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."
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"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
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"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
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"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."
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"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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