"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."
-Confucius
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"The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.“
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"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
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