"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.“
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
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"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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