"Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse."

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Benjamin Franklin

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“My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.”
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
“Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.”

Source : "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.
“I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense,”
“Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?”

Source : Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.”
“It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.”
“Envy's a sharper spur than pay.”

Source : 'Fables' (1727) 'The Elephant and the Bookseller' l. 74

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