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“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
Source : Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House
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“We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants who never leaves the place he came from. He talks about Ireland all the time. If any Irishman wins at any sort of sport, he sees it as a personal achievement.”
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“My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.”
Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.154, Vintage
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“The moment you have faith, there is the experience. The moment you have trust, there is realization, there is enlightenment. Then this world no longer exists as the world. The world exists as the Self. It exists as God. And then, with our physical eyes, we can see the light of God everywhere and in everything.”
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“Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.”
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“Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.”
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“All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.”
Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012. 
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“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
